Police arrest guard over killing of LAUTECH student

The Oyo State Police Command, yesterday, paraded one of the suspects allegedly involved in the killing of a student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Miss Seun Adaramoye.

The remains of the student was said to have been discovered on June 20, this year by a passer-by beside a guest house at Ogbomoso.

The police gave the name of the suspect as Alex Akinyemi, a security man at the guest house.

While speaking with newsmen at the Oyo State Criminal Investigation Department, CID, Iyanganku, Ibadan, Assistant Commissioner of Police, CID Unit, Dansuki Galadanchi, said the suspect was exposed by the closed circuit television, CCTV.

He said: “When the owner of the guest house heard about the incident, he called the CCTV engineer to play back the recordings of the camera. He saw where one of his security men named Alex Akinyemi carried the corpse and reported the matter to the police.

According to him, “the security guards, Dauda Aliyu and Samuel Ojo were arrested. When the film was played, we identified the person in the film as Alex Akinyemi who was in charge of the guest house on the day.

After the arrest of the guard, the police boss said the corpse of the student was later moved to LAUTECH for post mortem examination.

Galadanchi said the other suspect in the case, Charles Segun Aregbesola, who is at large, would soon be arrested.

The suspect, Akinyemi, said: “I have been working as a security guard in this guest house for over two months, and I only know this Segun aka police as a resident of that area before I saw him dropping the corpse around 8am that day. He threatened to kill me with an axe he was holding that day if I report to the police and promised to give me ₦500,000, but he did not give me till now.

Also paraded was one Wajud Akande for alleged conspiracy, stealing and conversion of goods worth N1.2 million.

Source: Vanguard