An Ibadan, Oyo State-based evangelist has met an untimely death in the hands of a young man she took as an assistant. The guy, clobbered and strangulated her in order to cash the N2m he discovered in her account.
The unlucky woman was an evangelist with the Christ Apostolic Church, Oke Imole, Ibadan, Oyo State, Mrs Grace Ajibola; while the suspect is Abegunde Olaniyi. He is now in the custody of the Oyo State Police Command.
The police said Olaniyi, who was described as an errand boy to the evangelist, said he first hit her with a wooden object and then strangulated her, and thereafter carted away her Tecno mobile phone and three Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards.
The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Sina Olukolu, told journalists on Tuesday that at the Command Headquarters, Ibadan, that Olaniyi killed Mrs Ajibola on March 17, 2020 at about 11am at her residence at the Oluyole area of Ibadan.
He said the police recovered one Tecno mobile phone and two ATM cards belonging to Mrs Ajibola and the wooden object that the suspect used in hitting her.
The suspect said he had discovered Mrs Ajibola had a sum of about N2 million in her bank account after she sent him to withdraw money for her via the ATM at a new generation bank at Apata, Ibadan.
“I decided to murder her and take possession of the money,” Olaniyi said.
