See what Greed to do to a Person
Damilola Olusolade, a 36-year-old staff of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) is currently in deep trouble. He is being prosecuted at the Iyaganku Magistrate Court, Ibadan following his arrest by police operatives in the Oyo State capital.
He has been charged with murder for allegedly killing a bosom friend who he had accompanied to Lagos to purchase a car.
After the car had been bought, Olusolade reportedly got greedy and wanted his friend’s car for himself. He then plotted to kill his friend, a plan which turned successful.
The deceased, Ifedayo Adebisi, had reportedly appealed to Olusolade to accompany him to Lagos to buy a new car. They were returning to Ibadan from Lagos after buying the car when Olusolade allegedly strangled Adebisi.
Olusolade, before he appeared in court, had told Daily Sun that he accompanied Adebisi to Lagos to buy a Mistubishi Wagon on December 2nd, 2009. “When we got to Lagos, he bought the car in the sum of N650, 000. I drove the car from Lagos to a place near Ogere and parked it. But later, an evil spirit came upon me and I strangled him in the night around 8:30pm. The place was about seven kilometers to Ogere on the Lagos Ibadan Expressway.”
He said after killing his friend, he immediately ran away, adding that he never told anybody about the incident.
The suspect said he regretted his actions even as he admitted that he had no quarrel with the deceased when he killed him.
Olusolade, who described Adebisi as his childhood friend, said he dropped the lifeless body in a bush by the roadside.
He said policemen from the State CID, Iyaganku, visited his office last month and interrogated him over Adebisi’s death. He said, however, that he denied knowing anything about his disappearance.
“Even members of Adebisi’s family have asked me about the whereabouts of my friend, but I always told them that I didn’t know anything about his movement,” he said.
A senior officer at the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID) Iyaganku, Mr. Benjamin Okpara, a chief superintendent of police (CSP) told Daily Sun that the deceased’s family wrote a petition to the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adisa Bolanta over the death of their late son, Ifedayo Adebisi.
Okpara said in the course of the investigation, Olusolade was invited for questioning but he denied killing his friend.
“After thorough investigation, we had to invite one Mr. Afolabi, the car dealer from Lagos who recognized Olusolade,” he said.
According to him, Afolabi was able to identify Olusolade as the man that accompanied Adebisi to purchase a Mitsubishi Wagon car for the sum of N650, 000 from him in Lagos. He said that it was at that point that Olusolade confessed that he actually killed his friend through strangulation on December 2nd, 2009.
Okpara said after killing his friend, Damilola drove the new car to Ibadan and registered it in his name, thereby inheriting his murdered friend’s vehicle.
Daily Sun learnt that the entire members of Adebisi’s family were shocked that it was the childhood friend of the deceased that murdered him. They are now crying for justice.
The family is particularly saddened by the fact that, until his arrest, the suspect was driving around town in the car bought by Adebisi.
A senior manager at the FRCN Ibadan who pleaded anonymity told Daily Sun that everyone at the place was shocked at the development.
“We couldn’t believe it when the police invited Olusolade to the State CID for interrogation. We thought it was a minor case,” he said, adding that they were shocked when they learnt later that the suspect had told the police that he killed his friend.
In a chat with Daily Sun, Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adisa Bolanta said the deceased’s family wrote a petition over the mysterious death of their son. He said that the police launched a thorough investigation; nothing that Olusolade later confessed that he actually murdered his friend.
Olusolade has been ordered to be remanded at the Agodi Prisons.
Daily Sun, Friday, October 22nd, 2010,
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From Ngozi Uwujare, Ibadan
