Detectives probing the assassination of Lagos Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant, Engr. Funsho Williams, appear to have stumbled on a clue linking the slain politician’s cook and two other persons with the murder.

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Daily Sun gathered on Sunday that the crime busters found N5 million and an international travel passport on the cook, when he was arrested on Thursday, July 27, the day Williams was murdered.

The information came ahead of a press conference to be addressed by the Inspector General of Police, Mr Sunday Ehindero, at which the prime suspects would be unmasked.

The investigators have zeroed in on the cook, named Francis, a guard, who is on the run and Williams’ media assistant, Frank Uzuagbunam.

Daily Sun learnt that the cook had earlier withdrawn a huge amount from his account, which detectives suspect could have been part payment for the job, before he went for the N5 million.

“We want to know who paid the huge amount into the cook’s account,” the police source said.

Efforts to find clues that could nail those who paid the cook led to a surprise raid on the homes of all PDP governorship aspirants now in detention on Saturday and the arrest on Sunday of two more politicians who did not honour police invitation. The arrests have brought the number of persons detained at the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID), Alagbon over the murder to 32.

Police told Daily Sun that the arrested governorship aspirants would remain in detention until those who sent the assassins are found.

Meanwhile, the slain politician’s family has released a burial programme. The programme, signed by Ibikunle Williams, states that burial activities would start on Wednesday and end on Thursday. A wake-keep would hold between 5 p.m and 7 p.m on Wednesday and the corpse would lie in state at the Tafawa Balewa Square, in Lagos between 8:15 a.m and 9:30 a.m.

According to the programme, a funeral service would be held in honour of the late Williams at the Catholic Church of the Divine Mercy, Lekki by 11 a.m, to be followed by interment at Victoria Court Cemetery and reception at Tafawa Balewa Square.

Sympathisers at the Williams’ Dolphin Estate home at the weekend included Nasarawa State Governor, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, Chief Alex Akinyele, Chief Ishola Filani, Chief Akin Osuntokun and wife of Vice President, Mrs Titi Atiku Abubakar