A suspect arrested for the murder of a former winner of Guilder Ultimate Search, Hector Jobarteh, has confessed that he got N5,000 for participating in the crime.
Ismaila Adeyemi, 49-year-old Ismaila Adeyemi, also said he got a mobile phone from the valuables carted away from the victim’s residence.
He added that his brother, Usman Adeyemi helped him sell the phone for N7,000, adding that he gave Usman N2,000 from the sum, leaving him with N5,000.
Usman has also been arrested.
Jobarteh was killed on September 3 by assailants who trailed him from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja to his house in New Oko-Oba, Agege after he picked his younger brother who just arrived from abroad.
He was buried in Ibadan on September 14.
Apart from Ismaila and Usman, four other suspects, including an Uber driver, who took the gang to the victim’s house, and the buyers of the phone, had been apprehended.
Ismaila, who was paraded on Monday at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja, told a PUNCH correspondent that one Nonso, KK and he stormed the house that Jobarteh’s lived on a robbery mission that day.
The father-of-two explained that a woman, who is still at large, led them to the residence, adding that the deceased’s father was shot during the attack.
He said: “I knew KK through Nonso, whom I worked with in a filling station in Apapa some years back. I met Nonso about five months ago and I gave him the address of where I live in Sango, Ogun State. KK just came back from abroad that time.
“I did not know who the man was before the operation. On that day, we parked at a filling station around his house and a lady came to meet KK. After a while, he received a call from the lady and we saw the man (Jobarteh) drove into the close.
“We followed him but did not know where he entered. KK approached a woman and lied to her that the man’s car hit his and he sped off. He begged her to direct us to where the man entered and she did. When we got into the building, we saw the car and met another lady on the premises.
“KK asked the lady to lead us to the man’s apartment, but she declined. It was when he pointed a gun at the woman that she complied and took KK upstairs. He called us to come upstairs, but by the time we got to a living room upstairs, he had shot the man’s father in the hand.”
The native of Osogbo, Osun State said the gunshot prompted Jobarteh to come out from a room to the living room, where KK fatally shot him.
“I did not shoot at all, although I was holding a gun too. I quarrelled with KK for shooting them, because our plan was just to rob. He threatened to shoot me and I kept quiet. It was a pair of shoes and flowers that were in the bag we collected from him. We didn’t find money there.
“I took away only his white handset while KK went with the bag. I gave the phone to my brother, Usman, to help me sell it. He said he sold it for N7,000. I collected N5,000 and gave him N2,000,” he added.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, who paraded Adeyemi, said he shot the GUS winner.
He added that the command would not stop until other suspects involved in the murder were arrested.
“I am glad to announce to you that after weeks of extensive manhunt, the principal suspect, Ismail Adeyemi, who pulled the trigger that killed the victim, has been arrested and he confessed to the crime.
“He also admitted to other various criminal activities within the state,” Edgal said.
