Three suspects have been arrested for the murder of an Eighty-five years old farmer in Iyin-Ekiti area of Ekiti State.
Nigeria crime.com learned that the suspects specialized in attacking farmers and stealing their farm produce were arrested by the State Police Command‘s Rapid Response Squad on Monday.
Confirming the arrest, the Command’s Police Public Relation Officer, (PPRO), Sunday Abutu, said the arrested suspects were, Ogunlusi Damilola, Olorunsola Segun and Sekoni Tunde.
Abutu said the suspects specialized in attacking farmers and stealing their farm produce.
According to Sunday Abutu, “During interrogation, the suspects confessed that on Wednesday last week, at about 5 pm, they went to the octogenarian farm situated off lyin-Ado express road, attacked him with a machete and carted away some tubers of yam”
“They confessed that on Tuesday, 27th of July, they entered another farm settlement at Ipole-Ekiti where one Awe Taiwo Julius was inflicted with serious injuries and ten tubers of yam were carted away in the process.
Abutu said the 85-year-old victim later died while receiving treatment at Ekiti State Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti
He noted that the stolen yam tubers were recovered, while effort is still ongoing to arrest other members of the gang now at large.
Abutu said the Suspects would be arraigned in court at the end of the investigation.