The long arms of the law have caught up with a cook who allegedly murdered his boss, Chief Ope Bademosi, chairman/chief executive officer of Credit Switch Technology, Lagos, at his Ikoyi home on Wednesday.

The suspect, simply identified as Sunday, was nabbed by the police in Ondo.

The cook had bolted after slaughtering his boss, prompting the police to declare him wanted.

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Ondo State Police Command, Mr. Femi Joseph, confirmed the arrest. The suspect was paraded Friday before newsmen at the command headquarters.

Many Lagosians shivered in horror on Wednesday as THISDAY newspaper broke the news of Bademosi’s gruesome murder early that day at his Onikoyi Lane, Parkview Estate residence.

THISDAY quoted a neighbour of the murdered company chairman as having said: “I heard a scream from the wife, so I ran outside to their flat and saw her screaming outside with people holding her as she said that her husband had been murdered. When we got inside, we saw the man in a pool of blood with the volume of music increased to the highest level.

“Already we had called the attention of the estate police before going in and they arrived just on time. According to the wife, she said she left her husband very early this morning to do some transactions in the bank. On her way back, she called her husband and couldn’t hear what he was saying as his words were barely cohesive, and was just muttering words before the call dropped.

“She attempted to call him back but he wasn’t picking up his phone. On getting home, the security was still asleep and couldn’t even respond to her car horns till she got down from her car, to bang on the security’s window; that was when the security eventually woke up to open the gate for her. But unfortunately, on entering, she met her husband lying in a pool of his own blood and couldn’t find the cook who just resumed work on Sunday anywhere.

“That was when she screamed out for help and sent the security to help her run to see if he can still apprehend the cook. Perhaps because of fear, the security who was just employed on Sunday as well, also took to his heels upon the news that his new boss had been murdered.”

THISDAY spoke with a former security guard at the apartment, who pleaded anonymity, declaring that he was sacked from his job after working for just a month with no reasons given to him and was paid off by the deceased on the eve of the incident.

His sack, he told the newspaper, was induced by some security measures he claimed he took to ensure that proper records of visitors to the apartment were kept. Prior to his employment, he continued, there were no records of visitors to the apartment.

“I just returned from police questioning,” the ex-guard said. “I was the one guiding that house before. That oga is a very nice man. When I resumed work, I realised that there wasn’t a manifest where security can keep record of any visitor that comes around. So I developed that.”

That singular measure, the sacked guard was further quoted as saying, opened a big box of trouble for him as he was consequently booted out of the house. He revealed that on Sunday  “I realised that they have employed new cook and security man when I went there to carry my fan. And yesterday (Tuesday) evening, Oga (the deceased) called me to come and collect my salary, which I went and I saw him. He was hale and hearty.”

The Divisional Police Officer of Ikoyi Division, Ikoyi-Lagos,  Mustapha Tijani, a Superintendent of Police, told THISDAY, that an official statement would be issued by the police once they conclude investigation into the brutal murder.

Before leaving the venue, the newly employed security man, came back to the crime scene, accompanied by his guarantor for the job. Both of them were later whisked away by some police officers