POLICE RECOVERS CORPSE OF MISSING 43 YEARS OLD REAL ESTATE MAGNATE IN BAYELSA

Operatives of the Rapid Response Unit of the Bayelsa State Police Command has recovered the corpse of Mr. Ekpeboh Richard, a missing Real Estate Magnate, from the forest at about 6pm on Saturday 2nd August 2025 between New NDDC IDP Camp and Otuokpoti road in Ogbia Local Government Area of the State.
Police discovered the deceased was shot in the head in an execution manner and dumped in the bush.

Mr. Ekpeboh Richard is the Vice Chairman of the Real Estate Consultants Association of Bayelsa and hails from Amassoama in Southern Ijaw Local Government area of the State. He is married with two kids.
He left home on the 24th of July,2025 and the wife became worried at about 2 am when he failed to return home.

According to family sources, all calls by the worried wife was answered three days later via WhatsApp chat when he purportedly asked her not to mount unnecessary pressure on him and that he was ok.
Further prompting 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.
A sum of 15,300 naira was purportedly sent to a POS agent and not her account.
He also revealed that he is owing two persons 9 million naira and 3 million naira within the association.
But it was later discovered that those who abducted and killed him were the ones using his phone to chat with his worried wife.

According to some friends and colleague of the deceased, they later reported the matter to the Police and the men of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS headed by CSP Bishop Elemide.
The RRS operatives, working on intelligence, cooperation of 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, saying that what they heard later were two-gun shots.
And the two young men scampered to their car and left.
They also left with the deceased car, a Toyota Matrix car.

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, the youths assisted in recovering the body. The place it was dumped was a swamp. His head was blown off by gun shot.

It was gathered from sources at the Police Headquarters that the homicide department of the State Criminal Investigation department may take over the case and are already working on two facts.
According to the sources 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 cybercrime or money laundering deal that went wrong.

The sources said the police will get to the root of the matter and bring the culprits to book as efforts are on to apprehend the assailants.
A Senior Police officer, who confirmed the development, told newsmen that Mr. Francis Idu, the Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police is fully aware of the development despite his absence on official duty in Abuja.