The Nigerian police, kogi state command has disclosed that Adebayo Pelumi who murderer a photojournalist Ayo Aiyepekun , has committed suicide in a hotel in Lokoja.
The spokesperson of the command, SP William Aya said his remains has been evaluated and deposited in a morgue of Federal Teaching Hospital, Lokoja where the corpse was deposited.
Adebayo Pelumi untill his suicide was an officer of the Nigeria Correctional Centre, killed his friend on Tuesday between the hours of 8:30 pm and dumped the corpse in an undisclosed spot.
According to one of the staff of the hotel who pleaded for anonymity, said Adebayo Pelumi lodged in their hotel on Wednesday afternoon and was found dead on Thursday around 1pm when one of the steward of the hotel went to clean up the room at check out time.
The hotel management quickly alerted the policemen who went there and identified him as the prime suspect they were hunting for.
Recalled that a photo Journalist working with Inside Story in Lokoja, Kogi State Ayo Aiyepekun was on Tuesday murdered by his neighbour, Adebayo Pelumi who reside in the same compound.
An eye witness account who worked with the InsideStory online media , said he was in the office with the victims doing some video and photo editing when the suspect called the victim to help him out in his poultry farm which is inside the same compound.
The source said it was around 8:30pm when the suspect called him, but he didn’t know that Ayo was not the only person in the office and immediately Ayo get out to meet Adebayo, he hit him with iron repeatedly and killed him there.
The eye witness said he saw the suspect lifting the body into a deep freezer before moving the body into his Hilux Van prompting him to raise alarm.
