Decomposing Body Of Kidnapped Former FUTA Vice-Chancellor Found In His Generator House

The corpse of the kidnapped 78-year-old former Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Professor Albert Ilemobade, has been found inside his power generator house. The family of the deceased had last week raised alarm of his kidnap in his house alongside his driver. The late Professor of Veterinary Medicine was said to have been strangled last Monday by his security man, identified as Daniel, and driver, Yemi, and dumped in the power generator house before fleeing with one of his vehicles, a red RAV4 SUV. The suspects who were arrested by detectives in Ogun State, while they were attempting to sell the car, confessed that they stole the vehicle after they had murdered the professor. 

A signal was said to have been sent to Ondo, based on the confession of the suspects that they stole the vehicle after they had murdered the professor and dumped his corpse in the power generator house. Acting on the signal, police detectives were deployed to the house located at 40, Ikere Street, Ijapo, and his decomposing corpse was discovered. 

Vanguard learned that the body was discovered in a store attached to the garage, where diesel is stored. While police in Akure were busy working on the theory that the deceased was kidnapped, little did they know that he had been murdered and his corpse dumped a few meters away from the main house. A week ago, family of the deceased professor had raised alarm that he was missing alongside his security man after they were both kidnapped. The family had said the kidnappers walked into the house and mysteriously took him away with the security man.

Vanguard learned that the house maid reportedly raised the alarm that some men came looking for the deceased and drove off with him, while the 73-year-old wife was still sleeping in one of the rooms in the house. The two suspects sold the family a dummy by dropping his wrist watch and a pair of slippers by the security gate, as if they fell from him while he was been taken away by his abductors. The suspects, before fleeing with the stolen vehicle, locked the main gate of the house from outside with padlock, thus locking the wife and others in.

A family member told Vanguard that the two suspects, after killing the professor, poured diesel on his body, apparently to suppress the stench that would come from the decomposing corpse. The state Commissioner of Police, Isaac Eke, confirmed the arrest of the suspects, adding that they would be paraded today.