…We attempted to set her corpse ablaze, but ….. Suspects
Akure, Ondo State – In a shocking turn of events, two domestic staff of the late CEO of Kitchen Country, Mrs. Olakunbi Adene, have confessed to murdering their boss after she treated them to a sumptuous meal.
The staff, who were arrested last week, revealed that they used cutlasses and knives to kill Mrs. Adene at her Oda Road residence.
According to police sources, the suspects attempted to set the victim’s corpse ablaze but were unsuccessful. The motive behind the murder is still unclear.
The victim, who had celebrated her 54th birthday just two days prior, was found dead at her residence. Police detectives tracked down the suspects using the victim’s stolen android phones, leading to their arrest in Akure and Idanre.
The husband of the deceased has stated that an autopsy will be conducted later. The case is currently under investigation by the Ondo State Police Command.
“One of the suspects said the three of them (Driver, P/A and another friend) went to their late boss’ house who cooked for them on that fateful Thursday and after eating the delicious food they descended on her, gagged her mouth and used two big cutlasses they brought along to cut her head while she was pleading to them to spare her life.
” The suspect said the generator was on between 6pm and 7 pm and the deafening noise of the generator did not let others know.
” They said they covered the deceased’s head with duvet and continued hitting her head, they later cut her wrist and leg. Not only this, the suspect said the other two were with knives and started stabbing her stomach, chest and breasts”.
“Her intestines were said to have come out while the body was full of scars.
” The suspects to cover their tracks and want people to believe it was a fire accident, went to the kitchen and lit the gas with matches then opened the gas from the cylinder and emptied the gas in order to make it explode.
“They then covered it with rubber clothes to make it burn the whole house so that people would think it was caused by gas explosion from the kitchen.
“But the gas cylinder did not explode as they planned. They then took her ATM cards and two Android phones and fled the scene.
Speaking on the murder of the popular caterer, her younger brother, Adebola Oyeneye, said ” I was the one who took the body to the mortuary, they burnt part of the stomach.
Also speaking, the deceased husband, Dele Adene said that the autopsy would be done later.
Adene confirmed that the killers used knives to stab her severely.
According to him ” I went with the police to the house last Friday looking for the knives they used, because one of them confessed that they used knives to stab her and when one broke, they picked another one, maybe the knife had been buried in her stomach, it’s when the autopsy is done that we would know”
