Lagos State Police Command has arrested the suspected killers of a former permanent secretary in Ogun State Femi Egbeoluwa and his wife Olufunmilayo Egbeoluwa.
The couple was killed in March 2023 at their Lagos residence in the Allen Avenue area of the state.
One of the suspects is a former driver of the couple Wale Adeyemo; the other is Kingsley Chibueze.
The state commissioner of police Idowu Owphunwa paraded the suspects on Thursday.
The Lagos police boss said, “Based on intelligence, police operatives of the Command arrested one Wale Adeyemo ‘m’ aged 37 and Kingsley Chibueze ‘m’ aged 26 for the ghastly murder of an elderly couple in their home on the 19th of March 2023.
“Investigation revealed that Wale who was formerly an employee of the couple, requested to be paid off and was obliged sometime in February during the cash crunch recruited Kingsley to aid his plans of robbing the victims.”
Owohunwa added, “The robbery then led to the gruesome murder of the couple and vicious attack of the housemaid.
“The suspects went away with an unaccounted sum of money in Dollars and Naira with two Samsung smartphones.”
