Security Guards Reveal Why They Killed Employer, Daughter

The Ondo state Police Command has arrested two persons who allegedly killed their boss at Ojomo Akintan Estate, Olu Foam Area of Akure, the State capital.

The suspects, Tasiu Abubakar, 23, and Ayuba Idris, 20, were said to be security guards, employed by the deceased. They were paraded at the command headquarters in Akure, for allegedly killing their boss, Mr. Richard Kwakye and his daughter Tope, last month.

Parading the suspects, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Undie Adie, said the suspects fled the state after committing the crime but they were apprehended in Sokoto and Kano States.

According to him, the deceased were initially declared missing but after the suspects were arrested, they confessed that they killed Kwakye and his daughter and threw their bodies away.

The police boss said, “On receipt of the report of the incident, detectives from this command swung into action and Ayuba Idris, 20, was arrested in Kano State on 16th May 2019. The handset of the missing person and his suits were recovered from him.

“Upon interrogation, he confessed that he and the second security guard named Taisu Abubakar knew where the two missing persons were. He led detectives to a building at the Ojomo Akintan Estate, where the decomposed bodies of Kwakye Richard, 71 and Kwakye Tope 27, were found.

“The detectives also tracked down the other suspect Taisu Abubakar, 23, in Sokoto State. One of the victim’s laptop computers and some clothes were recovered from him. Upon interrogation, he also confessed to the murder of the victims.

“They said that they decided to kill the daughter on the same day in order to cover their track since she saw them when they killed her father.”

The commissioner said the suspects would be charged to court while the decomposing bodies of the deceased had been deposited at the morgue.

On why they killed their employer, one of the suspects, Abubakar said the deceased did not offend them but they carried out the act after taking tramadol and Indian hemp.

Narrating how they committed the crime, he said, “On that day, we took tramadol and Indian hemp so we just decided to kill the man. While strangulating him, his daughter saw us, so we killed her too in order to cover up.”

The 71-year-old Kwakye was said to be a worker of the new estate who was given one of the buildings in the estate to be living in with his daughter, a fresh graduate, preparing to go for the National Youth Service Corps in July.