Operatives of the Ondo State Police Command have arrested a middle-aged man who claimed to be an assassin after allegedly killing no fewer than 500 people.
According to the Commissioner of Police in the state, Abayomi Oladipupo, the suspect, Adesina Adetokunbo, was apprehended after threatening to assassinate a woman in the state.
Oladipupo disclosed that the suspect had threatened the woman that three of her workers had paid him to assassinate her, hence, she must pay him to spare her life.
The Police Commissioner said, “On April 18, 2024, at about 7:00 a.m., a case of threat to life and demanding money with menace was reported to the police. 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 the complainant would be executed.
“Out of fear, the victim sent the sum of $110,000.00 to the account forwarded to her. Through technical assistance, Adetokunbo Adesina was arrested.
“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.”
Among those paraded at the police headquarters in Akure, the state capital, were murder, kidnapping, and armed robbery suspects.
Oladipupo added that “a case of murder was reported against one Abdullahi Fatai, aged 30, who was suspected to have killed his wife.
“The complainant stated that she left the deceased and her husband at home on March 26, 2024, for church in the in the early hours of the day and returned late on the same date, only for the husband to announce the death of his wife.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect and his wife, Olayode Morenike (late), had always quarrelled over the issue of going to check on her child in her former marriage. The suspects, after killing the deceased, took pictures of the body and locked the corpse in the house till late at night before raising an alarm.”