How I and my friends killed FUTMinna lecturer Adefolalu – 14-year-old Afekafe confesses (video)

A 14-year-old girl, Joy Afekafe, on Tuesday, narrated how she and her two friends, Walex and Smart, stabbed Dr. Funmilola Adefolalu, a lecturer with the Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Technology, Minna to death in her apartment in Minna, Niger State.

The lecturer was found dead in a pool of her own blood and the knives used to stab her in her home in Minna on Saturday, October 28 (read here)

Afekafe was paraded as one of the suspects responsible for the murder of Dr Adefolalu, at the Bosso Police Station in Minna, Niger state on Tuesday (read here).

While confessing to the crime, Afekafe said she had previously lived with the lecturers for about two weeks on the pretext that she would take over the sponsorship of her education.

But the SS 2 Student of Day Secondary School, Gidan Kuka, said the lecturer decided to send her away after two weeks because she could not stomach her behaviours.

She said she and the two other suspects who were also students in her school had gone to Dr. Adefolalu’s residence to confront and beat her up for sending her away.

Afekafe said they decided to stab the lecturer to death over fears that she would recognise and report them to the authorities after beating her.

To actualise their plan, he said her accomplices, Smart and Walex first hit the deceased with a stool before they began to stab her repeatedly with knives and eventually left her in a pool of her own blood.

She stated: “It was Walex who said that she would recognize us if we left her alive, so they started stabbing her with the knife we brought, I then struggled with the knife with them which made Smart enter her kitchen and take a knife there and they continued stabbing her.

“They stabbed her in her stomach, her hands, her legs and she was just shouting Jesus, Jesus. After all that, they took her phone and laptop and her car battery before we left the house in the motorcycle we came in.”

Abiodun Wasiu, the spokesperson for Niger Police Command said efforts are ongoing to arrest Afekafe’s accomplices, Walex and Smart.

He also revealed that the investigation had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further investigation and prosecution.

It was gathered that the deceased lecturer was also a pastor at Voice of Mercy Ministry. The Church in a statement had asked police to ensure speedy investigation of the murder of the lecturer in a statement by its Head of Media and Communications, Pastor Bolaji Olanipekun.

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