After casing him for weeks in Lagos, Ogun, Ekiti , and Kwara, police eventually nabbed Kehinde Salisu Jelili, the ringleader of a POS robbery syndicate.
Jelili and his men robbed a POS owner of N4 million, and then killed him.
According to detectives of the Ogun State Police Command, Jelili and three others have been robbing and killing POS owners and Uber drivers.
Their last operation took place in Ota, where they invited a POS operator, Abiodun Odebunmi, they already baited with a N1.5 million transaction a day before.
According to Odebunmi’s assistant, his boss took N4 million in cash from Aparadija, Lagos, to Oju Oore, Ota, in Ogun, and he never came back.
She had stated further that the said Odebunmi was nowhere to be found since he left, as calls made to his phone did not push through.
According to her, the boss had earlier done a transaction of N1.5 million with the person who invited his boss the following day.
The man was said to have invited the POS business owner for a N4 million transaction at Ojuore, Ota.
As the policemen at Onipanu commenced investigation, they found the charred remains of Odebunmi in an uncompleted building at Arobioye, Ota.
The case was then transferred to the homicide section of Ogun CIID on the order of the Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun.
The CSP Femi Olabode-led homicide team, was said to have embarked on investigation, leading them to Otun Ekiti in Ekiti State, where the suspect was said to be hiding.
The criminal later left Ekiti for Offa in Kwara to shake off the sleuthhounds.
“He was later trailed to Benin Republic, where he had gone to attend the court session of Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho),” Ogun police command PRO Abimbola Oyeyemi said.
On the day the suspect was to return to Nigeria from Sunday Igboho’s court session in Benin Republic, the detectives laid ambush for him and apprehended him at a boundary between Ogun and Lagos.
On interrogation, Jelili, who claimed to be a native of Apomu in Osun, confessed to killing the victim.
“He confessed further that he deliberately lured the victim to Ota, where he and his gang members were waiting for him with the money he was asked to bring, having transacted a N1.5 million business with him the previous day, and that they hacked him to death after collecting the money from him.
“He stated further that they burnt the victim’s body in order to cover their tracks.”