Policemen attached to the Edo state Police State Police Command have arrested a member of a local vigilante in Benin for allegedly killing an artisan in the state and setting his corpse ablaze.
The Public Relations Officer of the command, Moses Yamu, stated that the suspect was arrested by operatives attached to the Textile Mill Road Division following a distress call received from members of the public at about 8 am on February 20, 2025.
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The spokesman stated that the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the Textile Mill division received a call that they saw a corpse of a middle-aged man, identified as Lasan Osaze Erhabor, lying under a heap of sawdust and burning.
According to him :, “The DPO mobilised and deployed his operatives to the scene and actually found the corpse burning under the sawdust.
“They took the corpse to the hospital, but, they, however, found that there was a gunshot injury on the back of the deceased.
“Investigation has already commenced, and we have one suspect in our custody who was the security person of the sawmill at the time the incident happened.”
The spokesman added that the case has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for in-depth investigations, assuring all that after the investigation, the suspect would be charged in court for murder.
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