A farmer in Ogun State, Mr. Kolese Womiloju, 45, and his son, Taiwo Womiloju, 25, have been arrested by police for hacking a herder Abubakar Sidi Usman, 32, to death.
Father and son were said to have first attacked the herdsman with a ring laced with charm on April 22 which immobilised him and while he remained unconscious, and then inflicted machete cuts on him, killing him.
The suspects dragged the remains of the herdsman to an abandoned well near the scene of attack and dumped them there.
It was learnt that the farmer and son had earlier warned the herdsman to pull his herds of cattle out of their area and desist from further grazing on their land but the victim purportedly failed to heed to the warning.
In the ensuing disagreement, the suspects allegedly struck him with a charmed ring and rendered him unconscious before finishing him off.
Police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi, who made this known on Sunday in a release, said the suspects were arrested by operatives from the Odeda Divisional Police Headquarters.
He stated: “The suspects were arrested following a report by one Usman Bello who reported at Odeda divisional headquarters that the deceased who was his younger brother and has a cattle settlement at Gbagba Elewure village has gone missing. Upon his report, s search party was organised for him.
“Later in the evening, the deceased corpse was found in an abandoned well in the nearby bush where he was thrown into after killing him.
“The DPO Odeda division, CSP Ajayi Williams led his detectives to the scene where the victim was seen with a deep matchet cut all over his body.
“Having confirmed that the deceased was murdered in cold blood, the DPO and his men commenced an intelligence based investigation into the case which led to the arrest of the father and his son who also live in the same village with the victim.”