{"id":670,"date":"2025-08-05T15:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=670"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:11:08","slug":"police-recover-body-of-missing-43-year-old-real-estate-mogul-in-bayelsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Police recover body of missing 43-year-old real estate mogul in Bayelsa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Operatives of the Rapid Response Unit of the Bayelsa State Police Command on Saturday evening recovered the corpse of missing\u00a0\u00a0real estate\u00a0operator, Ekpeboh Richard, after days he was declared missing by his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His decomposing body was recovered from the forest between New NDDC Road and Otuokpoti in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kizz Daniel, Angelique Kidjo, Johnny Drille - Police (Official Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9HnSQVpK8AU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Police discovered the deceased was shot in the head in an execution-style and dumped in the bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A graduate of the Niger Delta University, Ekpeboh is the Vice Chairman of the\u00a0\u00a0Real Estate\u00a0Consultants Association of Bayelsa and hails from Amassoma in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state. He is married with two kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He left home on July 24, 2025, and his wife became worried at around 2 a.m. when he failed to return home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to family sources, all calls by the worried wife to his mobile phone were left unanswered until three days later via WhatsApp chat, when he purportedly asked her not to mount unnecessary pressure on him and that he was okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further prompted by the wife that she would reach out to the extended family to ask him why he abandoned the house was met by a promise to send money via POS, where the sum of N15,300 was purportedly sent to a POS agent and not her account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family source also revealed that he owes two persons the sums of N9 million and N3 million, respectively, within the association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it was later discovered that those who abducted and killed him were the ones using his phone to chat with his worried wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RRS operatives, working on intelligence, youths, and an eyewitness, discovered that two young men in a blue-coloured Honda V-Boot car had dragged the deceased out and took him deep into the forest. \u201cWhat we heard later were two gunshots. And the two young men scampered to their car and left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey also left with the deceased\u2019s car, a Toyota Matrix.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police investigators discovered that there was a struggle between the deceased and his killers, with footwear discovered a few metres from where the body was discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe, the youths, assisted in recovering the body. The place he was dumped was a swamp. His head was blown off by gunshot,\u201d one of the youths revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our correspondent gathered from sources at the Police Headquarters that the Homicide Department of the State Criminal Investigation Department have taken over the case and is already working on two leads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are looking at the fact that it may be a case of business deals gone wrong with members of his Association of Real Estate Consultants, or that he may be involved in a cybercrime or money laundering deal that went wrong.\u201d<br>\u201cWe will get to the root of the matter and bring the culprits to book,\u201d a police source stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior police officer, who confirmed the development, told our correspondent that the Commissioner of Police, Francis Idu, is fully aware of the development. <a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/news\/police-recover-body-of-missing-43-year-old-real-estate-mogul-in-bayelsa\/\">(Guardian)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the Rapid Response Unit of the Bayelsa State Police Command on Saturday evening recovered the corpse of missing\u00a0\u00a0real estate\u00a0operator, Ekpeboh Richard, after days he was declared missing by his family. His decomposing body was recovered from the forest between New NDDC Road and Otuokpoti in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state. 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