Two corpses found inside Lagos drain, security guard arrested
The police in Lagos have detained a security guard after residents reported two corpses found inside the drain in front of his station.
The corpses are those of currency changers a tenant had invited into the building.
The suspect, Collins Etaredafe, aka Top Boy, has fled to avoid police arrest. Etaredafe is reputed to be a musician.
Paul Omotosho, an estate agent, said he was among those who assisted the suspect in renting the apartment.
The PUNCH quoted Omotosho as saying that the suspect’s girlfriend, Evelyn, facilitated how they met.
Omotosho said, “He (Etaredafe) called me, said he stays in Delta State, and that he wants to book a short-let apartment. That was how he became a regular client.”
He added that the suspect called him subsequently to help secure an apartment for his mother but he failed to give the necessary background information.
“Out of the trust I had for him as a regular client, I foolishly provided someone’s details to keep the place for him and since then, my thinking is that his mother had moved in,” Omotosho said.
Omotosho said he was at home when the agent in charge of the apartment where Etaredafe had been living in the place of his mother, called to inform him that the musician had allegedly killed the BDC operators.
He said, “The agent called me that Etaredafe had killed two people in his apartment. He also said he dumped their corpses outside the gate and ran away.
“The agent said the blood of the deceased victims was traced to his apartment and later discovered that the people the musician killed were Bureau-De-Change operators. I was told he invited them to his apartment because he wanted to change dollars before killing them.”
Benjamin Hundeyin, the spokesperson for the police command, ruled out ritual murder. “No part of the deceased victims’ bodies was cut off,” he said, adding that the detained guard was helping with ongoing investigation.
