36-year-old Togolese man, whose name was given as Noukounou Daniel, was brutally killed by suspected land grabbers, known as Omo Onile, in Ogun State.
PUNCH Metro gathered on Monday that the incident happened on Wednesday, November 27, at Atan, Sokoto Road, Ologuede Area in Ogun State.
Peter John, a close friend of the victim, told our correspondent that Daniel had visited his plot of land to prepare for a building project he planned to begin the next day.
According to The Punch, it was reported that after finishing some work on the land, Daniel called his wife and assured her that he would be home soon.
However, shortly after, he was attacked by the land grabbers during a dispute and was violently hacked to death with machetes.
Peter added that members of the community alerted the police, who arrived at the scene, retrieved Daniel’s body, and took it to the Atan Police Station.
“They machete him beyond recognition so much that they could not put his corpse at the mortuary but took him for burial. The people who killed him went away with his phone and motorbike,” John stated.
He added that Daniel’s family had since relocated to the Benin Republic for safety.
John also revealed that the presence of land grabbers in the area had been a recurring problem, with many people facing similar threats
