Police arrest suspect for alleged kidnapping, murder in Edo

The Edo State Police Command has arrested a 33-year-old man in connection with the alleged abduction and murder of a 53-year-old farmer, Henry Ohiengbonmwan.

In a statement  on Tuesday in Benin, the command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Moses Yamu, said the victim was reported missing on May 13. The report was filed four days after Ohiengbonmwan failed to return from his farm in Igueze community, Ovia North East Local Government Area.

“On June 16, operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, using technical intelligence, tracked and arrested the suspect, a native of Oron community in Akwa Ibom State,” Yamu stated.

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During interrogation, the suspect allegedly confessed to conspiring with four others, who had previously been hired by the victim to work on his farm, to kidnap, murder, and bury him in a shallow grave.

Yamu stated that the suspect led police to the crime scene, where the decomposed body of the victim was recovered following proper exhumation procedures.

He added that efforts are ongoing to apprehend the remaining suspects who are currently at large.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Monday Agbonika, urged business and farm owners to conduct thorough background checks on prospective workers to avoid similar tragedies.