The Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Jonathan Tsekar, 30 who is reported to be the head of the TIV ethnic group in Opeji community of Odeda local government area of the state for allegedly killing a Police Corporal over a business deal worth N120, 000.
The deceased, simply identified as Gbenga Adeboyejo of the Odeda Police division was said to be a business partner to the suspect who deals in crude production of charcoal.
The commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Illiyasu on Monday led men of the command to exhume his corpse from a shallow grave in a thick forest in Opeji village where he was buried by the suspect in a shallow grave.
Illiyasu while addressing the journalists at the crime scene disclosed that the crime was committed on November 24, this year.
He said the deceased was reported missing on Dec. 1 by his father, Joseph Adeboyejo, who lives in Ilorin, Kwara, after he stopped receiving calls from him.
“On Dec. 1, Joseph Adeboyejo reported to the police that his son visited him in Ilorin and explained a charcoal business he was doing with one leader of the Tiv community in Opeji village.
“He stated further that while the corporal was with him, he received a call from the said Tiv man informing him that his charcoal was ready, consequent upon which he left Ilorin to meet the man.
“He explained further that his son called him on the phone when he reached the man’s house but added that since then he had not seen him nor heard from him,’’ he said.
The Odeda Divisional Police Officer, Baba Mohammed , he added, swung into action and arrested the suspect and two others who had earlier contacts with the deceased.
“The case was transferred to the State Criminal and Investigation Department where the suspects were put under serious investigation and forensic analysis.
“This man who was the prime suspect later confessed to killing the police corporal by hitting him on the head with a heavy plank of wood in order not to refund the sum of N120,000 paid to him for the charcoal.
“He further confessed that he buried the deceased in a shallow grave in the forest,” the commissioner said.
The commissioner said the suspect would be charged to court.
The suspect, while speaking with journalists, said he regretted committing the act, adding that that the policeman attacked him first.
“He complained that his goods were late and we started arguing. He struck me with wood and I also struck him with wood.
“I didn’t intend to kill him. When I realised he was dead, I dug a grave to bury him,” he said.
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