Man Attends Sunday Igboho’s Trial In Benin Rep After Killing, Robbing POS Operator

Detectives from the Ogun State Police Command have apprehended Kehinde Salisu Jelili, who is accused of killing a POS operator after robbing him of N4 million in cash.

The individual and three other people were accused of being part of a gang that “specialized in robbing and killing POS and UBER operators.”

When the Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, was taken to court and the suspect was wanted by detectives in Ogun State, authorities reported he traveled to Benin Republic.

Abiodun Akinola, Johnson Fakeye, and Jamiu Akinola were arrested when Aanu Salaudeen, who claimed to be an attendant to one Abiodun Odebunmi, a POS operator, filed a report at Onipanu police station on April 18.

Odebunmi told the police that her boss had left his Aparadija office the day before to see one customer with N4 million in cash to be utilized for POS transactions.

She went on to say that the aforementioned Odebunmi was unable to be found since he left, and that calls to his phone had gone unanswered.

According to her, the boss had already made a N1.5 million deal with the guy who had invited his boss the next day.

The individual was claimed to have invited the POS business owner to Ojuore, Ota, for an N4 million transaction.

As police in Onipanu began their inquiry, the victim’s lifeless and burned body was located in an unfinished structure in Ota’s Arobieye neighborhood, with no sign of his assailants, according to Abimbola Oyeyemi, Ogun Public Relations Officer.

On the order of the Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, the matter was transferred to the State CIID’s homicide division, where the CSP Femi Olabode-led homicide team began their investigation, bringing them to Otun Ekiti in Ekiti State, where the suspect was reported to be hiding, according to Oyeyemi.

He was said to have hurriedly fled to Offa in Kwara State after learning of the detectives’ presence in Ekiti.

He was then tracked down in Benin Republic, “where he had gone to attend Chief Sunday Adeyemo’s (aka Sunday Igboho) court session,” according to Oyeyemi.

The detectives allegedly set up an ambush for the suspect on his way back to Nigeria from Sunday Igboho’s court appearance in Benin Republic, and caught him at a border crossing between Ogun and Lagos.

“On interrogation, Kehinde Salihu Jelili, who claimed to be a native of Apomu in Osun State, confessed to killing the victim.

“He confessed further that he deliberately lured the victim to Ota, where he and his gang members were waiting for him with the money he was asked to bring, having transacted a N1.5 million business with him the previous day, and that they matcheted him to death after collecting the money from him.

“He stated further that they burnt the victim’s body in order to cover their tracks,” it was stated.

It was gathered that the man confessed that he and his accomplices usually targeted Uber and POS operators, saying few Uber drivers had been killed with their cars taken away.