One Ayobami Adedeji, a suspected assassin arrested alongside three others in connection with the murder of a member of the Oyo House of Assembly, Gideon Aremu, has made shocking revelations on why the lawmaker was murdered.
DAILY POST recalls that three gunmen trailed Aremu on a motorcycle on July 1 and shot him dead.
Aremu, who was killed in front of his house in the Alakia area of the state as he alighted from his car to open the gate, was until his death the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Public Relations and Security.
Following his confession, Adedeji, the principal suspect dismissed insinuations that the killing was politically motivated.
He insisted they were robbers and not hired assassins and as robbers, their intention was to rob him of his property.
In his confession before newsmen yesterday at the state police headquarters, the 23-year-old suspect said he initially did not understand why a colleague of theirs, Abbey, killed the lawmaker, but that he later discovered Abbey pulled the trigger because he lives in the same neighbourhood with the lawmaker.
According to him, “We left a popular drinking joint at Beere, where we smoked Indian Hemp to our satisfaction. We did not have the lawmaker in mind when we took off from Beere. It was when we were looking for whom to rob that we saw him in his car. We stopped him as he was about entering his premises and robbed him of his phone and money.
“Then Abbey just pointed the gun at him and shot him many times. I didn’t know why he killed him. Later I discovered that Abbey lives at Adegbayi too. His mother has a house there.
“Abbey said he knew the lawmaker. It was Abbey that brought the deal to us.
“We were going somewhere before we had a change of mind. I was there when Abbey shot him.
“He told us that the victim was killed because they thought he identified them due to a torchlight he shone on them.
“We had only one gun. Although I was the one that collected the items, I did not know how much money we took from him. I was given only N40, 000. “He told us that the victim was killed because they thought he identified them due to a torchlight he shone on them,” the ex-convict, who was freed in 2015, added.
Another suspect, identified as Alfa, who removed the SIM card and decoded the lawmaker’s phone, said he collected the phone from them, adding that he did not know they were robbers.
“I live at Muslim area of Ibadan. When I saw the phone, I decoded it and sold it for N16, 000.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Oyebade, said with intensive intelligence coupled with diligent and painstaking investigation by well-trained police detectives, four of the suspects were arrested.
Oyebade, who has passed the baton to a new Commissioner of Police, paraded the suspects.
He said, “The initial arrest of one Adeniran Oladapo with the victim’s phone, led to the arrest of other suspects among who is Ayobami Adedeji.
“He confessed that he belonged to the four-man robbery gang that actually robbed and killed the deceased in front of his house.
Oyebade added that the arrest was made possible by the combined efforts of the Intelligence Response Team, IRT, of the Inspector General of Police, IGP and detectives from the state Police Command.
“They will be made to face the law on completion of investigation,” he added.
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