The Ondo State Police Command said its men have arrested one Adetokunbo Adesina, suspected to be a member of a gang of hired assassins unleashing terror in the state.
Abayomi Oladipo, the Commissioner of Police in the state, disclosed the arrest of Adesina at the weekend in Akure while parading 18 suspected criminals.
He said, “The complainant stated that she received a call from a strange number and the caller introduced himself as an assassin. The caller affirmed that he had killed over 500 people and that three of her staff had paid him to assassinate her.
“He demanded that a certain amount be paid to an account or that the complainant would be executed, and out of fear, the victim sent the sum of N110,000 to the account forwarded to her, but through technical assistance, one Adetokunbo Adesina was arrested.
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“The suspect claimed he was sick and needed money to carry out a surgical operation and decided to use the threat as a means to extort the victim because she refused to employ him in her pure water factory.”
In a related development, the CP said they arrested one Babalola Daniel who led detectives to a shallow grave in the Okeigbo area where the corpse of a cleric, Evangelist Opeyemi Oyelakin, was exhumed.
Further investigation, according to the CP, revealed that Mr Daniel killed four persons in various locations and stole their motorcycles.
