"We Strangled Him" Ex-FUTA VC Died In The Hands Of His Gateman, Former Driver

Suspected killers of the an ex-Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Prof Albert Ilemobade, have confessed to his gruesome killing.

Ilemobade's decomposing body was found in a store in his Ijapo Estate, Akure residence on Sunday evening.

The suspects, Olayemi Bamitale and Ita Daniel, narrated how they murdered the late the octogenarian in his own home.

Bamitale was the don's former driver while Daniel is the gateman and mastermind of the crime.

In his confessional statement Isaac Eke, 36-year-old Bamitale said they connived to kill Imemobade so they could steal and sell his Red Toyota RAV4 Jeep.

"When he (Ita) called me, I said I had no money but he said I should come that he would pay for my transport when I got to Akure.

"He came to meet me at Obanla junction and gave me N1,000 to pay for my transport.

"He said I should meet him at Papa's house at Ijapo by 9pm because I had worked there before as a driver.

"When I got there, he told me that he had gone to his herbalist that said if he wanted to steal the car, they should kill the man. 

He told me that the herbalist said he should bring the sand of the house so that there would not be any problem after that. I asked him that the man had slept, how would he come out?

"He said he would say there is a sparking of electricity in the house and once he comes out, we will strangulate him. 

True to his word, he went to the window of the man and told him that there was electricity sparking in the security post. 

The man came out through the kitchen door and we killed him. He now suggested that we should take him to car park. 

"We now dragged him there so that we could enter the house.

"We now went inside his room and saw the key to the car; we took it with two bags, N7,000, two handsets, one laptop computer and one i-Pad. 

We now left the house and he now locked the gate from outside.

"When we wanted to leave the estate, we saw the security and when they saw him, they asked us to leave."

Luck soon ran out on the duo.

Policemen nabbed them while looking for a buyer of the car in Lagos.