Police operatives in Bayelsa State have recovered the corpse of missing Real Estate Magnate, Ekpeboh Richard, from a forest between new NDDC IDP camp and Otuokpoti road in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state.

The deceased who was said to have been abducted to the forest was shot in the head and dumped in the bush, before his corpse was recovered by operatives of the Rapid Response Unit of the Bayelsa State Police Command on Saturday night.

The deceased, who was the Vice Chairman of the Real Estate Consultants Association of Bayelsa, hailed from Ammassoma in Southern Ijaw Local Government area of the State.

According to a family source, he left home on the 24th of July, 2025, and the widow became worried when he could not return home at about 2 am the next day.

According to the family source “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 purpo sent to a POS agent and not the wife’s account.

“It was later discovered that those who abducted and killed him were the same people using his phone to chat with the worried wife.”

Some friends and colleague of the deceased, later reported the matter to the Police and the men of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) headed by CSP Bishop Elemide, before the corpse was discovered.

It was gathered that police operatives working on intelligence, cooperation of Youths and an eyewitness account, discovered that two young men in a blue Coloured Honda Vboot car had dragged the deceased out and took him deep into the forest,” what we heard later were gun shots.”

They also left with the deceased’s vehicle, 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.

When contacted, Police Spokesman in Bayelsa State, DSP Musa Muhammad, said he will get back, but he had not done so as of the time of filling this report. (Weekend Trust, excluding headline)