Mr Adeyemi, who originally hails from Kwara State, confessed to have been hired to kill a female hotel lodger in the Alakija, Satellite Town area of Lagos State. He was arrested by the police after he sneaked into the hotel called White House and demanded that his target, simply known as Rosemary, had sex with him so he would spare her life.
Brought by two gang members on a motorcycle to the hotel to kill Rosemary, Mr Adeyemi, who dropped out of senior secondary school, was arrested by the Satellite Town Police Division last Thursday.
However, once Mr Adeyemi laid his eyes on his supposed target, he reportedly fell in love with her and eventually attempted to rape her after she rebuffed his pleas to have sex with him. Rosemary then raised the alarm and the hotel management subsequently called the police, and Mr Adeyemi was arrested.
Upon his arrest, one locally-made pistol and a live cartridge were recovered from Mr Adeyemi, who has since been transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja. According to the police, the suspect belonged to a three-man gang and a manhunt has been launched for the other two gang members.
Mr Adeyemi said he gave the woman N1,500 to have sex with her, adding that he fell in love with his target. He added that he then told her he would take her necklaces and wristwatch away and lie to my gang members that she had been killed but Rosemary raised the alarm.
“I was working as a casual worker at a bottling company in the Apapa area before I met the gang members in the Ajegunle area. A friend, Wisdom, had invited me to stay in his house and his friends, who are Eiye Confraternity members, saw me and said they had a job for me.
"They said the job was to kill a woman. I said I could not do such a job but they threatened to kill me and since they had guns and I was afraid. Finally, I was left with no option but to do their wish and one of them, Ahmed, gave me the gun and they brought me on a motorcycle to the hotel but when I got to the hotel room and saw the woman, I fell in love with her and I had mercy on her," Mr Adeyemi said.
He pointed out that everyone in the hotel called the police, the Oodua Peoples’ Congress and other vigilance groups. According to Mr Adeyemi, when his parents heard about his arrest, they were disappointed and he told them that he was being threatened by the cult members, stressing that had he meant to kill Rosemary, he would have shot her and run away
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