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Mr. Ismail Adeyemi on Monday confessed that late Gulder Ultimate Search 3, (GUS3) winner, Hector Jobarteh, was shot and killed because the gang were desperately in need of money from him.
Adeyemi stated that he and his gang members, KK and Nonso, only wanted to rob Hector, but unfortunately one of them, KK shot him.
Recounting how Hector was killed and his father shot, Adeyemi explained that he and his partners were driving around, scouting for whom to rob, when they sighted Hector in his red car, driving into a close that leads into the estate at Oko-Oba, where he lived.
KK, the leader of the gang ordered the trailing of Hector’s car. Before they could catch up, Hector had driven into his compound. The robbers were confused.
They sighted a woman and told her that they were looking for a red car that sped off after hitting their car. The woman innocently pointed at Hector’s apartment.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Imohimi Edgal, said Adeyemi was the prime suspect.
He insisted that Adeyemi, a former filling station attendant at Apapa Wharf area of Lagos, pulled the trigger that killed Hector and landed his father in the hospital.
Speaking with journalists on Monday, Adeyemi vehemently denied the police allegation that he killed Hector and shot his father.
“I was not the person that shot Hector; it was my friend, KK, who shot him. I even quarrelled with him for shooting the guy.It was KK that led the robbery operation. When I asked why he shot Hector, he said that Hector wanted to grab him, possibly to struggle with him.
I reminded him that our agreement was to only rob people and collect their valuables, not to kill. KK got angry and threatened to shoot me. In fact, he even pointed the gun at me.We met a woman inside the compound and asked her the flat that Hector entered, but she refused to cooperate.
It was at that point that KK brought out the gun and threatened to shoot her. She was scared and took KK upstairs. I was downstairs with Nonso when we heard gunshots. KK called us to come upstairs.
We got upstairs and discovered that KK had shot Hector and his father. KK first shot the father and later shot Hector when he came to know what was happening. We snatched Hector’s bag and phone and left.
When we opened the bag, we found only a pair of shoes, boxers and flower. I took his phone.”
Adeyemi said he gave the phone to his younger brother who sold the phone for N7,000 at the Ikeja Computer Village. According to him, he gave the brother N2,000 while he pocketed N5,000. Policemen tracked Hector’s stolen phone to the Computer Village.
They arrested the trader who bought the phone and later used him as bait to arrest Adeyemi.