I Killed My Best Friend To Snatch His Motorcycle And Sell It For Money — Suspect

A suspect, Dolapo Babalola, 39, said he killed his close friend to be able to snatch his motorcycle and sell it to his regular buyers and use the money for his personal use.

Babalola, who said apart from his friend’s motorcycle, he had snatched about 15 motorcycles since he started the nefarious deeds, disclosed that he had never killed before.

Narrating how he and other suspects who are currently at large killed his close friend to journalists in Akure, the Ondo State capital, Babalola disclosed that when they intended to collect the bike from the deceased, he dragged it with them, so they hit him with a stone. He said, “It is the work of the devil, I can’t explain because this person that we are talking about is my close friend. He is a close friend of mine. Truly his bike is not the first bike I will ever snatch, but I have never killed before.

Even those that are not related to me I snatched a bike from them and I did not even do anything harmful to them but this one is just a coincidence. It is the work of the devil I can’t explain how it happened. At least I have snatched about 15 bikes but I have never killed before. His own is the first, my buyer is in Ibadan. The cleanness of the bike at times determines how much we are going to sell it, but no matter how clean the bike is, my buyer will buy it for around N200,000.

But we sold this one at the rate of N130,000 and we shared the money equally because we are two in the business. When we intended to collect the bike from him, he dragged it with us and I hit him with a stone. I know his mum and younger brother. I can’t explain why I killed him. I am a trader I sell oranges but I don’t have a shop.