Ebonyi: How we chased criminals away from Ishiagu community – LG boss, Ajah

<p>“It was Akinyele Adebayo who helped them to dismember the body after telling them that he needs the head of the deceased for certain ritual and they all agreed with him to take it,” Oyeyemi stated.</p>, <p>He added that the suspects later took the remaining parts of the body to Tamake town and buried same in front of Gbalo Idosu’s house.</p>, <p>The prosecution counsel, Insp Femi Oluwadare, informed the court that the couple allegedly conspired to commit the offence.</p>, <p>DAILY POST learnt that the farmers were killed on Saturday afternoon while they were working on their farms.</p>, <p>Efforts to reach the spokesman of the state police command, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, in Ilorin on Sunday proved abortive.</p>, <p>The police charged the husband and wife with conspiracy and murder, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).</p>, <p>DSP Mohammed Jalige, the state police command’s Public Relations Officer, promised to get back with details of the incident, while the state government has not reacted to the attack.</p>, <p>The Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident on Monday morning, said the four farmers also dismembered the body of the herder for ritual purposes.</p>, <p>It was a huge relief for the residents after suffering about one month of hot weather and mosquito bites.</p>, <p>Jigawa State has witnessed the first rainfall of the 2023 rainy season easing the long excruciating hot weather.</p>, <p>“If the rain continues like that I am sure in some days we will commence planting in good time,” he said.</p>, <p>Funmilayo further disclosed that the kidnappers later demanded ransom from the families of the remaining two victims, who eventually were forced to pay N200,000 for their release four days after their abduction.</p>, <p>Ajah made this known while speaking with newsmen in Abakaliki, a day after the commissioning of numerous projects in Ivo LGA, by the state governor, David Umahi.</p>, <p>Lana had confessed to the police that it was Ojugbele who called to inform him of t