Nigeria’s Maersk MD Tohouo attacked at home, wife killed, Tohouo hospitalized

There are reports that the managing director of Maersk Nigeria Limited and his wife were attacked on Sunday night  in their Ikoyi home.

Gildas Tohouo Tohouo ,who heads Maersk operation in Nigeria is a Cameroonian.

Although he survived the attack and has been hospitalised, his Hungarian wife was killed. The attack was carried out in their Lugard Avenue home in Ikoyi.

Reports also said the police have made two arrests, in connection with the robbery and murder. 

Information from the police states that Mr Tohouo, a native of Cameroon and his wife a Bulgarian reside at the Cul De Sac Compound, the same as former Head of State Ernest Shonekan which is off Oba Adeyinka Oyekan in Ikoyi, a highbrow area in the state. According to the police, the estate electrician had gone to the couple's home under the guise of coming to fix an electrical fault. He came in with one of his friend.

When they gained entrance, the eletrician and his friend overpowered the couple and locked them in separate rooms. Mrs Tohouo was said to have been forced to transfer some money to her attackers after which she was forced to drink acid, stabbed and suffocated with a pillow. The assailants then moved to Mr Tohouo who they forced to drink acid and also stabbed.  He was however able to send a distress call to his company's Chief Security Officer (CSO) who in turn contacted the Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu.

Bala Elkana, the state police command's spokesperson, said those who carried out the attack are currently in police custody.