Lekan Akanbi, the prime suspect in the murder of a former Central Bank of Nigeria employee, Mr. Kehinde, his wife, Bukola, and their son on New Year’s Day in Ogun state, has confessed to the heinous crime.
Lekan, who was the late family’s driver, said as he marched past reporters on Friday, February 10th, that he staged the murder because the couple refused to increase his salary and grant him a loan .
He said that he and his gang members killed the family after forcing them to remit 1,102,000 naira.
According to him, he began working with the couple in 2010 without a salary increase, and several attempts to persuade them to increase his salary failed.
The suspect explained that he then invited two other people, Ahmed Odetola, a.k.a. Akamo, and Waheed Adeniyi, aka Koffi, to accompany him in the robbery.
He claimed that contrary to reports that he picked up the couple from the church after crossover night, he left their home hours before the service and returned with his gang to ambush them.
Lekan said his gang attacked the couple as soon as they entered the home and was able to restrain an Alsatian dog at the gate because he knew the animal and usually fed it.
“We forced the husband to transfer money from his account to the Kuda Bank account of Ahmed Adetola, but the transfer failed. Since that failed, I gave the deceased my Access Bank account, to which the sum of N1,102,000 was transferred at gunpoint.
“When I realised that my identity had been known through my bank account, I decided with others to terminate their lives. That was when Waheed Adeniyi, aka Koffi, took a knife from their kitchen and slaughtered the husband, Kehinde Fatinoye, while I used a sledgehammer to hit the wife, Bukola Fatinoye, in the head and she died on the spot,” he said.
