Ekpeboh Richard, a Bayelsa-based real estate operator, has been found dead in a forest along the New NDDC road in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state.
According to the State Police Command, his lifeless body was discovered by operatives of the Rapid Response Unit on Saturday around 6pm.
The police source revealed that the deceased was shot in the head in an execution-style manner and dumped in the bush.
The late Mr Ekpeboh had been declared missing by his family earlier in the week.
He was the Vice Chairman of the Real Estate Consultants Association of Bayelsa, and hailed from Ammassoma in Southern Ijaw Local Government area of the state. He was married with two kids.
He left home on the 24th of July 2025 and the wife became worried at about 2am when he failed to return home.
According to family sources, all calls by the worried wife were not answered for three days.
Later he answered via a chat and reportedly asked her not to mount unnecessary pressure on him and that he was okay.
“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 sun of N15,300 was purportedly sent to a POS agent and not her account”
“He also revealed that he was owing two persons N9 million and N3 million 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 car had dragged the deceased out and taken him deep into the forest. What was heard later were two gunshots. 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.
Sources at the Police Headquarters said that the homicide department of the State Criminal Investigation department may take over the case and are already working on the facts.
