Killer of Maersk MD’s wife reveals how the operation was planned for three weeks after hiding on Mango tree

One of the two suspects, who attacked and murdered the wife of the Managing Director of Maersk Line, has been arrested from his hiding spot on a Mango tree.

He was arrested after he was sighted by a police commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu, where he was hiding on a mango tree.

The two suspects, Goke Olamilekan and Akande Adeyinka, had, last Sunday, invaded the Lugard, Ikoyi, Lagos State, home of Gilda Tohouo, stabbing the shipping line boss in different places with two different knives.

The police in the state in an operation, personally led by the state police commissioner, had less than an hour after the attack, arrested an electrician in the estate, Goke Olamilekan, said to have invited one of his friends, Akande Adeyinka, to carry out the dastardly act.

One
of the two suspects, Akande, had reportedly climbed a mango tree and was
hiding when the police boss beamed his torchlight on him and was
promptly arrested.

Preliminary investigations by the police revealed that the two suspects had planned the operation for three weeks, before eventually carrying it out last Sunday.

The police also found out that the suspects hid their weapons in one
of the vacant flats in the estate and strategized on how to carry out
the operation.

The electrician had told his partner in the crime
to lie to the security men that he was going to see a certain Mr Max,
which coincidentally is the name of one of the residents of the estate.

A
police source, who spoke under the condition of anonymity described the
Sunday night operation by the police team as “effective and timely “and
added that the two suspects would have escaped from the scene if the
police commissioner had not arrived.

The police source also said that the insistence of the Lagos State
police boss that they should search everywhere around the estate, despite the darkness, helped in the arrest of the suspects.

The
top police source said “the CP was on patrol when he received the
distress call and he swiftly moved to the scene, where he mobilised the
divisional police officer (DPO) and the Area Commander in the area.

“It
was dark and everybody wanted to go home but the CP insisted that we
must do something that would help in not just the investigation but also
to quickly arrest the perpetrators.“

The top police boss also
said that “It was an effective and timely operation. Those boys would
have escaped if the CP had not gone there himself. They were hiding and
no one would have thought that somebody was on the tree.”

He also
stated that “at a time, people felt that it was late and that everybody
should go but the CP went to his vehicle and brought out a torch. It was
very sharp. He was beaming the light in different directions, when he
pointed it up the tree and there, one of the suspects was hiding.

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