Quote:Barely two weeks after Gbenga Adeboyejo, a police corporal, attached to the Ogun State Police Command, disappeared, his corpse has been discovered and exhumed in a shallow grave at Opeji village, in Odeda Local Government Area of the state.

Operatives of the command uncovered the decomposing remains on Monday after a 30-year-old suspect, Jonathan Tsekar, a community leader, was arrested in connection with the incident.

Tsekar was identified as the leader of Tiv community in Opeji village. The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, who took reporters to the crime scene, disclosed that the suspect murdered the corporal on Saturday, November 25.
Iliyasu noted that Tsekar carried out the dastardly act in order not to refund a sum of N120, 000 he allegedly collected from the deceased. The money was meant for a charcoal business between the suspect and the late police corporal.

According to Iliyasu, the Tiv leader was arrested after the father of the deceased, Joseph Adeboyejo, lodged a complaint at the Odeda Police Station that he had not heard from his son for long.

The police boss said investigation later revealed that the suspect killed his victim in cold blood and secretly buried him, along with his mobile phone. He described the murder as, “wicked and callous.”