Murder Suspect of AAUA Students Dies of ‘Strange Illness’

Grieving students of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, yesterday demanded the corpse of the prime suspect, Femi Oladele, who allegedly carried out the murder of their two missing colleagues.

Their demand followed confirmation by the state’s police command of the reported death of Oladele in a hospital after falling sick on Friday.

Sources who spoke to our correspondent yesterday revealed that the prime suspect suddenly developed a strange illness after allegedly making a confessional statement about the brutal killing of the two students and their burial in a shallow grave. One of the sources, who pleaded anonymity, told our reporter that the suspect, arrested alongside two other accomplices in the murder case, was rushed to the hospital, where he gave up the ghost. “Tallex (Oladele) is dead. He gave up at the hospital yesterday after he made some confessions to the Police over the killing of the two Akungba students. I learnt he had fallen sick shortly after he was arrested,” he said.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Olayinka Ayanlade, confirmed the death of the suspect when contacted on the phone, saying he was taken to the hospital where he gave up the ghost. Ayanlade, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the suspect, who allegedly orchestrated the brutal murder of the students who also doubled as his tenants, had been in and out of the hospital before he died yesterday. He said: “Yes, he is dead. Following his arrest, the suspect (Oladele) had been in and out of the hospital under close medical supervision and was receiving adequate care before he died in the early hours of yesterday. As of now, the decomposing remains of Okah have been recovered while efforts are ongoing to locate Abba’s body.”

The police spokesman explained that two additional suspects, identified as Kola and Michael, who allegedly withdrew the sum of N800,000 from the late Abba’s account, had been arrested and were in custody, fully cooperating with the investigation. “So, we are asking members of the public to disregard any distorted narratives seeking to divert attention from the facts, and the Command can assure that justice will be fully pursued and all those involved will be made to face the full weight of the law[u1] . The two missing undergraduate students, Andrew Eloho Okah and Nohn Friday Abbah, were allegedly kidnapped and subsequently murdered by Oladele.

The suspect, popularly known as ‘Tallex’, was the students’ landlord. He was said to have ordered suspected cultists to deal with the victims for allegedly being disrespectful to him. The two undergraduate students were consequently abducted, robbed, raped and murdered.