The police in Lagos State are currently looking for a musician named Collins Etaredafe, also known as Top Boy, in connection with the alleged murder of two Bureau-De-Change operators.
Top Boy was said to have invited the BDC operators into his house in the Lekki area of Lagos State under the guise of changing some dollars.
After the BDC operators entered the building on Saturday, March 18, their bodies were allegedly dumped in a drainage system near the singer’s home.
A facility manager in the area, Paul Omotosho, claimed the agent in charge of the building informed him that after discovering the corpses in the drainage, some neighbors traced some drops of blood to Toy Boy’s apartment.
“I knew Etaredafe through his girlfriend, Evelyn, about three years ago when she contacted me that he needed an apartment. That was how he got my number. He called me, said he stays in Delta State, and that he wants to book a short-let apartment. That was how he became a regular client. Sometimes he would claim he does not know Lagos and will send money to my account to help him get some items and send them to him. In February 2022, he said he wanted to secure an apartment where his mum would be living in Lagos. he said he wanted to surprise her with the apartment as she has not been to Lagos before.
I had to reach out to a fellow agent who assisted me in getting the apartment. After that, the agent sent me a form to fill in the details of the occupant but when I asked for the details of his mum, he said she did not have any means of identification. Out of the trust I had for him as a regular client, I foolishly provided someone’s details to keep the place for him and since then, my thinking is that his mother had moved in.” Omotosho said.
Omotosho said he was at home when the agent in charge of the apartment where Etaredafe, aka Top Boy, had been living in place of his mother called to inform him that the musician had allegedly killed the BDC operators.
“The agent called me that Etaredafe had killed two people in his apartment. He also said he dumped their corpses outside the gate and ran away. The agent said the blood of the deceased victims was traced to his apartment and later discovered that the people the musician killed were Bureau-De-Change operators. I was told he invited them to his apartment because he wanted to change dollars before killing them.” he said
Omotosho stated that in an attempt to locate Etaredafe, he contacted his girlfriend, who stated that she did not know any of his relatives’ addresses. She later called me on Monday and asked if I had heard that Etaredafe had murdered two people in his home and fled. He stated, “They only met on social media, and she has no idea where he or his family lives.”
SP, the state police command’s spokesperson, According to Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident to reporters,
“The main suspects are on the run. No part of the deceased victims’ bodies was cut off. The case is at the SCID and is progressing. The security man is in custody and is assisting with the investigation.”
