A 28 year old man and farmer,identified as Adeleke Adewusi, has been reported dead after he was allegedly hacked to death by his workers at his farm in Alapa community in the Ogun state on Monday, 26th of August 2018.
It was gathered that the two workers accused of killing their boss were allegedly hired by a resident of the community identified simply as Ola Sheu to kill their boss whom he was having a running battle with.
According to report, the deceased was applying pesticides on his cocoa farm, said to be about one acre, when one of the workers, Femi, suddenly descended on him with a machete. In an attempt to get help for the deep cut he sustained, Adeleke reportedly ran to the second worker identified as Kehinde who also allegedly brought out a machete and joined in the attack. The suspects then fled the scene after they confirmed him dead.
While speaking on the sad incident, a relative of the deceased, identified as Bisola Adewusi, who disclosed that members of the vigilante group in the area, apprehended one of the workers while he was running away from the scene with bloodstains on his shirt said;
“When the vigilantes queried him about the bloodstains, he said it was as a result of an animal he killed in the bush. They asked for the animal, but he could not present it. The vigilantes became suspicious and probed him further. That was when he opened up. He told them that Ola Sheu contracted him and Kehinde to kill Adeleke. He was applying pesticides on his farm when they attacked him with machetes.
The case was reported to the police at the Owode division. Femi led the vigilantes and the police to arrest Ola Sheu and Kehinde. The third fourth suspect is still on the run. We want the police to handle this case seriously. A breadwinner and promising person has been killed prematurely. He must get justice.”
While the grieving father of the deceased, Sheriffdeen Adewusi, who noted that Femi, Kehinde and Ola Sheu had visited him on his own farm possibly to cover up any track that could link them to the crime said;
“My son and I were at Alapa that morning. I was planting cocoa when he passed by and went to apply pesticides on his farm some metres away from mine. After a while, Ola Sheu came to meet me. He greeted me and said he would need some cocoa seeds for planting. I promised to give him whenever he was ready.
Two hours after he left and headed towards Alapa town, Kehinde and Femi who worked for my son came and met me on the farm. They asked me to give them some ripe palm fruits. I told them to climb the tree and pluck as many as they wanted. They left afterwards unknown to me that they were plotting to kill my son.”
He added thar he was on his way home when he was informed that his son had been killed after the killers hid his corpse somewhere on the farm.
According to report, Femi, who was caught by the vigilantes, confessed that Ola Sheu was the mastermind of the attack because he wanted to take over the farm. The police have since arrested him and the workers but still searching for the fourth suspect who connived with them.
"Apart from Ola Sheu, some people had been having a running battle with my son over the farm. They said it belonged to them. My son must not die in vain. He was very hard working. We want justice,'' the father added.
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