MTN worker's death.Three weeks after
the murder of a 30-year-old customer care executive with telecommunications
company, MTN, Oluwatosin Ashinwo, in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, the
man who allegedly stabbed her multiple times, causing her death, has been
apprehended by the police.
MTN worker killer-Saturday PUNCH learnt
that 45-year-old David Ogundele, whose love advances were rejected by the
deceased, was arrested in Osun on Saturday, May 14, after the
police tracked him down with undercover agents.
He was immediately brought back to
Kwara State where he was transferred to the Department of Criminal
Investigation of the Kwara State Police Command, Ilorin.
It was learnt that the police had
also retrieved the murder weapon, a kitchen knife which Ogundele, an engineer,
used during the attack. Also recovered were slippers, which he left at the
scene.
Saturday PUNCH reported on
April 30 how Ogundele allegedly attacked Oluwatosin and her mother in her
apartment at Tanke area of Ilorin.
He reportedly stabbed the deceased
and her murder multiple times, locking them in the apartment as he fled.
Oluwatosin would later bleed to
death while her injured mother had to undergo a life-saving surgery to repair
the extensive damage inflicted by the knife attack.
Ogundele later told our
correspondent by text message while in hiding that he would give himself up to
the police because he was under a spell when he attacked the young woman and
her mother.
“She is dead, let me die too,” he
had said at the time.