Police probe murder of farmer in Kwara

The Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Ojo Adekimi, has ordered a broad and discreet probe into the gruesome execution of a farmer, Mr Azeez Garba, whose lifeless assemblage was discovered connected his farmland on the Owa-Onire axis, the bound betwixt Isanlu-Isin and Owu-Isin successful Isin Local Government Area of Kwara State.

A girl of the deceased, Abdulazeez ​Rofiat, had earlier raised the alarm implicit the execution of her begetter connected his workplace and called for justice.

The constabulary commissioner, who described the sidesplitting arsenic cruel, senseless, and unacceptable, powerfully condemned the enactment and directed the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) to instantly deploy each disposable investigative and quality assets towards identifying, tracking, and apprehending those responsible.

According to the spokesperson for the command, SP Adetoun Ejire Adeyemi, successful Ilorin on Tuesday, preliminary findings revealed that the deceased had gone to his workplace successful the greeting but failed to instrumentality home, prompting household members and section vigilantes to motorboat a search.

His motorcycle was aboriginal recovered parked astatine the farm, portion his lifeless assemblage was subsequently discovered a abbreviated region distant with heavy machete wounds.

“While nary apprehension has been made arsenic of the clip of this release, the bid wishes to guarantee the bereaved family, the p...