man identified as David Moses has admitted to the brutal murder of a school nurse and a 14-month-old child at Clear Hope Foundation Academy in the Dawaki area of Abuja, citing pressure from an accomplice named Sunday, who remains at large.
Moses, a security guard attached to the school, made the confession during a media briefing at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, detailing how he and Sunday had initially planned to kidnap the victims for ransom.
“What brought me here is that I killed a child with a nurse in Clear Hope School on July 23. Me and my friend, we demanded for ₦250 ransom. Later on, we later settled for ₦3 million. Which we collected,” he said.
He revealed that the plan went awry after a disagreement broke out between him and his accomplice over the sharing of the ransom money. Moses claimed Sunday stabbed him and fled with the cash, leaving him injured.
“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 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.”
In a chilling description of the crime, Moses recounted how the nurse was lured under false pretenses to a restroom area where she was ambushed and strangled.
“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 further confessed that Sunday pressured him into fetching the child to be killed as well, claiming the ransom would not be enough with just one victim.
“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.”
Asked whether he had ever been involved in similar crimes before, Moses claimed it was his first time.
“I have never done such a thing. This was the first time someone pushed me into any evil act.”
He expressed remorse, noting the woman had shown him kindness before the incident.
“There’s no relationship. The woman was nice to me. In fact, that very day, she gave me ₦300 to buy food. She had been giving me money to eat even before then.”
Meanwhile, Zachariah Fiyinfoluwa, a representative of the security company that deployed Moses, distanced the firm from the incident. He admitted the company did not have proper documentation for Moses.
“I don’t know anybody called Sunday. The person we posted to the school is David,” he said.
“For us not to keep the record, I accept that it’s our fault.”
Fiyinfoluwa also acknowledged that site supervision responsibilities existed but did not confirm whether such checks were carried out at the school.
FCT Commissioner of Police, Ajao Adewale, said the police launched an investigation after the victims were reported missing on July 23, and a ransom of ₦250 million was demanded from the caregiver’s family.
“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.
“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 ₦250 million for their release.”
“Despite having killed the victims, they still demanded ₦3 million from the family under the pretence that the victims were alive.”
Adewale added that Moses later confessed to the crime after his arrest and revealed the identity of his accomplice, Sunday Irimiya.
“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.”
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