By Pius Awunah with additional reports
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has announced the arrest of a suspect,David Moses over the murder of a caregiver and toddler entrusted to her in the Dawaki area of Abuja.
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh,announced this in a statement on Friday,August 1,2025,in Abuja.
Adeh said that the command, on July 23, received a report of the sudden disappearance of Mrs. Chinyere Anaene, a 55-year-old nurse at Clear Hope Foundation Academy, Dawaki, Abuja, and Nanenter Yese, a one-year and two-month-old toddler.
“Later that day, while at the police station, the caregiver’s husband received a ransom demand of ₦250 million through her mobile phone.
“The command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit swiftly launched an investigation, employing digital forensics and traced the victims and suspects to Yelwa and Uke in Nasarawa State.
“On July, 29, Police operatives arrested a security guard at the school who was believed to be a possible suspect who later confessed to conspiring with his best friend, now still at large to commit the crime,” she said.
Adeh explained that the suspects had lured Anaene to the school bathroom, where they attacked and strangled her.
The FCT police spokesperson said the suspect then took the child from a classroom and murdered him in the same manner.
She said the bodies of the victims were placed in a sack, transported using a scavenger’s cart, and dumped in a canal.
“The suspect led police to the location, where the remains were recovered,” she added.
Adeh expressed the command’s heartfelt condolences to the families of Anaene and Baby Nanenter and assured that justice would be pursued with full resolve on the matter.
Meanwhile,the suspect,David Moses, has confessed to the gruesome killing of the caregiver and toddler,blaming his actions on pressure from an alleged accomplice named Sunday, who is currently at large.
Moses, a security guard deployed to the school, made the confession while being interviewed by reporters at the FCT Police Command on Friday.
He said he and Sunday had planned to kidnap the victims for ransom, initially demanding ₦250 million before settling for ₦3 million.
“What brought me here is that I killed a child with a nurse in Clear Hope School on July 23.2025. Me and my friend, we demanded for ₦250 ransom. Later on, we later settled for ₦3 million. Which we collected,” he said.
According to him, the incident took a violent turn when a dispute over the ransom money broke out between him and Sunday.
He added that he later sought help and eventually confessed to the police after receiving treatment in a hospital.
When we collected the money and we 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 killed me immediately.
“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 killed, 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.
Moses said, “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.”
The child, he said, was later also taken and killed at Sunday’s insistence.
Moses said, “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 killed or kidnapped before, he said, “I have never done such a thing. This was the first time someone pushed me into any evil act.”
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.
