Abuja panel beater kills colleague, burns and buries corpse in shallow grave

Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command have arrested a panel beater, Taiwo Ojo, for killing, burning, and burying the corpse of his colleague, Philip Kura, in a shallow grave in the Bwari area of the Abuja.

According to PUNCH, an intelligence source privy to the homicide revealed that the 63-year-old suspect committed culpable homicide against his colleague after an argument over money on December 23, 2022.

The source said, “Ojo and Kura had a disagreement at his workshop on December 23. Ojo hit the victim with a shovel and he fell and died. He drew his corpse into banana trees shed close by where he later burnt and buried the victim’s remains in a shallow grave.