SAN FRANCISCO, December 10, (THEWILL) – An electrician, Ade Akanbi, with his accomplice, Olamide Adegoke, have been arrested by the Police for attacking the Managing Director of Maersk Nigeria, Gildas Tohouo, and stabbing his wife, Bernadett, to death at the couple’s residence in Ikoyi, Lagos State.
While the corpse of the wife, a Hungarian, had been evacuated and deposited in the mortuary, the man, a Cameroonian, is battling for his life in hospital and his condition remains critical.
The couple had organised a party in their house on Sunday and many invited guests were said to have gathered in the compound to felicitate with them.
Adegoke, a familiar face in the estate working as an electrician, was granted access to the party. He reportedly used his familiarity to smuggle his accomplice, Akanbi,
It was gathered that the party ended around 11.30pm and the guests departed for their various homes, but Adegoke and Akanbi were said to have lurked around the couple’s apartment.
The suspects later entered the building and attacked the couple with knives. They locked the husband and wife in separate rooms and forced the wife to transfer some money to them and also collected her ATM card.
Afterwards, the suspects stabbed the couple. The husband survived the attack and managed to call his company’s chief security officer, who alerted the police, but his wife was not lucky as she died on the spot after being suffocated with a pillow.
A team of policemen, led by the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, stormed the scene of the crime and arrested the suspects before they could escape.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, who confirmed the incident, said the knives used in perpetrating the crime have also been recovered.
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