Sunday Adefonou Anani, the 22-year-old Togolese cook, who allegedly murdered his boss, Opeyemi Badamosi, Chairman of Credit Switch Technology, is dead.

Vanguard reports that Anani’s counsel got a message on Wednesday morning that the suspect is dead.

Details of the death are still sketchy at the moment.

The late suspect was charged with one count of murder which was allegedly committed on October 31, 2018, at Badamosi’s resident at 3b, Onikoyi Lane, Parkview Estate Ikoyi Lagos. The charge stated that Anani, in order to rob, stabbed the deceased to death with a kitchen knife.

According to the charge, the offence is contrary to section 222 and Punishable Under section 223 of the Criminal laws of Lagos State 2015.

The police Prosecutor, Mr J.I Eboseremene had told the court that he had an application to remand the suspect in prison custody under section 115, of the administration of criminal justice law and 264, of adminstration of criminal justice law 2015.

The Lagos state police command had said it was able to establish a prima facie case of murder against the suspect with intent to steal from his deceased boss.
The news of Anani’s death in police custody emerged on Tuesday afternoon. It was the second curious death of a suspect in police custody in recent times.

Only last week, it emerged that the gang leader in the Offa Bank robbery who implicated Senate President Bukola Saraki in his testimony, had also died in police custody.

The News which prompted the Senate President to however called on the Presidency to institute a judicial inquiry into the ‘how and when’ Michael Adikwu, the principal suspect in the deadly bank robbery attacks in Offa, Kwara State, on April 5, 2018, died.

Anani reportedly stabbed Bademosi thrice on the chest on October 31 – three days after he was employed.

He was said to have sneaked into the deceased’s room to perpetrate the act moments after the victim’s wife left the house to keep up with an appointment.

The Togolese fled the house with some valuables after committing the crime.

He was later arrested in Ondo on November 2 – two days after killing Bademosi.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti, in a statement had said Anani singlehandedly tied his boss hands and stabbed to death with a kitchen knife, while attempting to rob him.

Oti stated that the 22-year-old suspect, who took advantage of his boss wife’s absence from home, allegedly broke into Bademosi’s bedroom to perpetrate the crime.

He said, “The journey that eventually ended the life of Opeyemi Bademosi, an Ondo State indigene, began in the deceased’s hometown, Ondo town, on Thursday, October 25, 2018, when one Kofi Friday, 27, returned from Togo to Nigeria and called his compatriots, including the murder suspect, Sunday Anani, 22, to his house at the Yaba area of Ondo town, where he told Anani that he had through the assistance of a friend, Agbeko Ayenahin, helped him secure a job as a cook in a rich man’s house in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State.”

Consequently, the Ondo Ekimogun Youths Congress issued a Press Release 18th November, they rejected the report in its entirety, that some lines were missing in the Police report and demanded a detailed version. Excerpt:

ONDO EKIMOGUN YOUTHS CONGRESS
REJECTS THE POLICE REPORT ON THE
DEATH OF CHIEF OPE BADEMOSI
..says Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere_

The attention of the leaders of Ondo youths congress have been drawn to the the report given by the Nigeria Police force on the gruesome murder of our dear Chief, ODC Chairman and an illustrious son of the land, Chief Ope Bademosi.

Ondo Ekimogun Youths Congress is the umbrella body for all youths in Ondo kingdom.

The death of our dear Chairman came to us as a rude shock,
we believe God will definitely track all the evil perpetrators down but we are worried!.

We are worried about the abrupt conclusion from the first report that he was killed by a togolese cook called Sunday who also resumed on the Sunday preceding the incidence.

We are worried about the dangerous silence from the Nigeria police force on the reason(s) why our late Chief’s security and cook were sacked few days before his murder.

We are worried about the dangerous silence from the Nigeria police force reasons why
the newly employed security guard was still deeply asleep around few minutes after 8:10
in the morning after opening the gate for the late Chief’s wife few minutes before that time.

We know that our dear Chief is a gallant man, It will be very difficult for the alleged murderer
to tie his hand backward and stab him to death as reported by the police. we are worried about
this report and we are eager to know others who assisted the alleged murderer in this cruel operation.

We believe some lines are missing in your report and we demand for a detailed one, remember that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere!

If you make the world to believe absurdities you are definitely making us to commit atrocities.

We hereby reject the police report and demand for a proper detailed investigation from the Nigeria police force.

Signed:
Comr. Eric Famogun
President, Ondo Ekimogun Youths Congress.
( umbrella body for all youths in Ondo)
Through:
Famakinwa lucaskakaki
President’s spokesman.

Bademosi was buried two weeks ago in Ondo, Ondo State.