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Labourers Who Allegedly Killed Farm Owner For Bags Of Rice Arrested

The Kwara State Police Command has arrested and paraded six men for allegedly killing a local rice merchant and mother of four, Mrs Florence Edeh, … Continue reading Labourers Who Allegedly Killed Farm Owner For Bags Of Rice Arrested


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Addressing reporters at the police headquarter, the State Commissioner of Police, Olushola Amore, said the late woman had engaged the suspects as labourers on her farm before she was later killed by the labourers.

According to him, the woman had decided on the day she was killed to sleep in the farm when it was dark and the six suspects allegedly killed her in the night.

He said the suspects carted away 12 bags of rice.

“We have a funny case of culpable homicide. A woman with a large rice farm employed some labourers to help harvest the rice and this happened in Kosubosu area, six of them employed.

“After the harvesting and bagging of the rice, it was too late for her to go. She employed one of them as guard and herself to sleep on the farm so that they will be able to move the 12 bags in the morning.

“These six people conspired and came in the night and hacked the woman to death and stole the bags of rice.

“For us in Kwara State, you cannot commit crime and escape as the long arms of the law will catch up with you,” he told reporters.

The exhibits recovered from the suspects include a golf car used in carrying the rice and the stick used in killing the woman.

Mr Amore also told reporters that the suspects would be charged after further investigations.