Saturday, August 2, 2025 - A suspect identified as David Moses has confessed to the gruesome m8rder of a school nurse, Mrs. Chinyere Anaene and a 14-month-old child, Nanenther Asher Yese, at Clear Hope Foundation Academy in the Dawaki area of Abuja.
Moses, a security guard deployed to the school, made the
confession while being interrogated by journalists at the Federal Capital
Territory police command on Friday, August 1, 2025, Punch reported.
According to the suspect, he and his accomplice identified
as Sunday Irimiya, planned the murder and demanded N250 million from the
victim's families before settling for N3 million.
"What
brought me here is that I k!lled a child with a nurse in School on July 23. Me
and my friend, we demanded for N250 ransom. Later on, we later settled for N3
million. Which we collected,” he said.
He said the incident took a violent turn when a dispute over
the ransom money broke out between him and Sunday.
Moses added that he later sought help and eventually
confessed to the police after receiving treatment in a hospital.
“When we
collected the money and were sharing it, that was when we had an issue. My
friend stabbed me with a knife, took the money, and ran away. I struggled and
took myself to someone’s house and told the person what was going on. But I
didn’t tell the full truth at that time because I was afraid the community
might have k!lled me immediately,” he explained.
“I insisted
on seeing the police so they could take me to the hospital and I could explain
the whole story properly. The man told me to wait while he called the police.
When the police came, they took me to the hospital. After I received treatment,
they began to ask me what happened, and I started narrating the whole story
from the beginning.”
Detailing how the school nurse was k!lled, Moses said she
was lured into a trap under the guise of checking something in a toilet, where
Sunday allegedly strangled her with a rope.
“I went to
call her from her class, while Sunday was hiding in the toilet. When I called
her, I told her I wanted to show her something near the front toilet where
Sunday was hiding. As we were going, he came out from behind and held the
woman. He put a rope around her neck and started strangling her she struggled
but eventually became weak,”
He said the child was later also taken and k!lled at
Sunday’s insistence.
“Then he told me to run and go bring the baby so we could also kill the baby. I said no, that the woman alone was enough. He insisted, saying that if we didn’t bring the baby, the ransom we demanded wouldn’t be enough. So, I went and brought the baby.”
When asked how many people he had k!lled or kidnapped before, he said,
“I
have never done such a thing. This was the first time someone pushed me into
any evil act."
Probed further on his relationship with the woman and the
baby, he said she gave him N300 to buy food the day she was k!lled.
“There’s no relationship. The woman
was nice to me. In fact, that very day, she gave me N300 to buy food. She had
been giving me money to eat even before then.”
Zachariah Fiyinfoluwa, a representative of the security
company that employed Moses distanced himself from the crime, saying he was
only informed of the disappearance of the nurse and child after the school
principal raised an alarm.
“I don’t
know anybody called Sunday. The person we posted to the school is David,” he
said.
However, under questioning, Fiyinfoluwa admitted that the
company failed to properly document Moses’ employment, including failing to
keep his guarantor’s information.
“For us not
to keep the record, I accept that it’s our fault,” he said.
When pressed further on the company’s responsibility,
especially for the safety of persons within the premises, Fiyinfoluwa admitted
that supervisors were supposed to routinely visit deployment sites but did not
confirm if such oversight occurred at the School.
In an interview with the Commissioner of Police, Ajao
Adewale said the victims were reported missing on July 23, 2025, from the
school the same day, a ransom demand of N250 million was made via the
caregiver’s phone.
The CP said following an investigation, police operatives
arrested Moses, who later confessed to conspiring with his friend, Sunday
Irimiya currently at large to carry out the crime.
“On July 23,
2025, the FCT Police Command received a distress report concerning the sudden
disappearance of Mrs. Chinyere Anaene, a 55-year-old school nurse and caregiver
at Clear Hope Foundation Academy, Dawaki, Abuja, and a toddler identified as
Nanenter Asher Yese, aged one year and two months,” the CP stated.
"On the
same day, the husband of the caregiver received a call on the caregiver’s
mobile phone wherein unidentified individuals demanded a ransom of N250 million
for their release.
“Despite
having k!lled the victims, they still demanded N3 million from the family under
the pretence that the victims were alive.”
He said the police have also arrested the school principal,
two other security guards, and the Chief Security Officer of the private
security company that deployed Moses to the school.
“In the course of our investigation,
the police also arrested the school principal, two additional security guards
who were meant to be on duty with David Moses, and the Chief Security Officer
of the private security company responsible for deploying the guards to the
school," he added.
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