A Tiv community leader and petty businessman in Opeji area of Odeda, Ogun State, Jonathan Tsekar, has revealed why he murdered his business partner, Gbenga Adeboyejo, a police Corporal and buried the corpse in a bush.
Tsekar, 30, said he killed Adeboyejo to free himself from the routinely distress his inability to pay the N120, 000 debt he owed the deceased caused him.
“He (deceased) complained that the supply of his goods was delaying 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,” Tsekar told reporters.
The community leader, a business partner of the deceased, deals in charcoal business.
He has been arrested by the Police in Ogun state.
The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Illiyasu, while addressing reporters at the crime scene located in a forest within Opeji, on Tuesday, said the suspect killed and buried the deceased with his cell phone in a shallow grave in the forest.
Illiyasu said the suspect was arrested when the deceased’s father, Joseph Adeboyejo reported the incident at the Odeda Police station.
“After serious investigation and forensic analysis, the community leader was arrested.
“The suspect confessed to killing the police corporal by hitting him on the head with a heavy plank of wood in order not to refund a sum of 120,000 which he collected from the deceased.
“On 1st December 2018, Joseph Adeboyejo reported 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 that while his son was with him, he received a call from the suspect informing him that his charcoal was ready, consequent upon which he left Ilorin to meet the man.
“He stated further his son called him on phone when he reached the suspect’s house but after some time he couldn’t reach him or hear from him on phone again.
Upon thorough investigation, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Baba Mohammed, the suspect was arrested.
“This is not only wicked and callous but also a superlative degree of effrontery because the suspect knows very well the status of the deceased,” the Police commissioner said.
He vowed Tsekar would be charged to court.
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