A 56-year-old farmer, Henry Oyagbomwan, has been killed and buried in a shallow grave by five of his farm workers.
The victim was killed after he sold pineapple worth N900,000 at his farm in Igueze village, in Ovia Northeast local government area of Edo State.
Reports said that the incident happened on the 13th of May, 2025.
Police sources said the five workers collected the money from the pineapple sales, killed their employer, and fled to different locations.
After killing the victim, the workers called the family and demanded a ransom of N60m but the family insisted on talking to their patriarch before making payment.
The workers then demanded for N300,000 and cut off all communication after collecting the money.
Following reports to the police, men of the anti-kidnapping squad went after the kidnappers.
They tracked one of them to Akwa Ibom State, where they arrested one of the suspects, Bassey Uyong Umeh, in a creek.
Umeh squealed that the victim had been killed, and took the police operatives to where the victim was buried, and the decomposing corpse was recovered.
Son of the deceased, Festus, said the cell phones of other suspects had been switched off.
Edo Police spokesperson, Moses Yamu, said investigation would continue to track snd arrest other fleeing suspects.
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