3 days after resuming duty, Togolese cook murders boss

Chairman of Credit Switch Technology, Chief Ope Badamosi, has been murdered by his Togolese cook in his Onikoyi Lane, Parkview Estate, Lagos, apartment, on Oct. 31, three days after he was brought from Ondo.

Vanguard gathered that the deceased was found in a pool of his blood by his wife, who drove in before noon. Her scream alerted neighbours, who rushed to behold the gory sight. Eyewitnesses said late Badamosi, a father of four, was stabbed in several parts of his body by the cook identified simply as Sunday, who increased the volume of music in the apartment to drown any screaming by the deceased.

Detectives from the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID, who arrived the scene when contacted, found a bloodstained white apron used by the cook inside the toilet and a bloodstained knife suspected to have been used by the assailant.

The apartment, as gathered, was also ransacked with an undisclosed amount of money, jewelries and other valuables carted away. At press time, no accurate profile of the fleeing Togolese had been found, except a group pictures where everyone in it wore the Military uniform of the Benin Republic.

According to residents of the estate, this will be the third time that they have had Togolese attacks in the estate.

It has become essential for employers to thoroughly verify the background of prospective employees before hiring them into their homes or businesses. Our society is filled with impostors posing as cleaners, drivers, shop assistants, security guards, etc.