On Monday, October 25, a police team led by the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of Bori Police Station, Inspector Gbako Amgbasim exhumed the decomposed body of Chief Robert Loolo, aged 61, who was kidnapped in 2019, at a creek linking Luwa, Bera, and Bane Communities.
Sources disclosed that the monarch was abducted from his residence on the 27th of June 2019, by irate youths of the community, who were fighting over the position of youth president.
According to the Monarch’s son, Dr Douglas Fabeke, ransom was paid twice to secure his release but his father was tortured and tied to a stick inside the creek and left to die.
His words: “We reported the matter to the police and to all the security agencies in the state; they got involved and tried to make sure he was released but after some time, there was silence. We went into more action and after about a few months; we were able to arrest a native doctor who confessed that he had been killed but did not know where he was buried.
“Ever since we have been on this issue, but two months ago, we renewed effort through intelligence gathering to make sure we locate where he was buried, and by the grace of God, today, we were able to mobilise forces from the Bori divisional police headquarters, with a combined team, and they stormed the forest.
“We were able to discover where he was buried. Everything to identify him with was there, we noticed he was tortured. He was tied to a tree.”
