Men of the Department of State Services (DSS) and soldiers of the Nigerian Army, Ibadan, have arrested six persons alleged to have participated in the murder of the Commandant, Command Secondary School, Apata, Ibadan Colonel Anthony Okeyim.

Deputy Director, Public Relations, 2 Division, Colonel Timothy Antigha, who made this known at a news briefing, said the lifeless body of the deceased killed around 10pm on December 11, last year in his official house was found in the school’s premises on December 12, 2016.

Autopsy report revealed that the deceased died as a result of rise in intracranial pressure from intracranial hemorrhage caused by fracture of the skull. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general three weeks before his death and he was waiting to be fully decorated with his new rank at the time of his assassination.

The suspects arrested Solomon Agada Emmanuel, 20, Bibisoye Kehinde, 27, Taiwo Adeniyi, 34, Ewere Andrew, 25, Ephraim Obi, 38, and Udobata Onusa, 28.

According to Antigha, the first suspect who was expelled from the school over N70,000 theft allegedly planned the operation.

Two of the suspects, Solomon Agada Emmanuel and Bibisoye Kehinde, it was learnt, confessed that they they were contracted by a rich Igbo man to deal with the deceased over a dispute on a landed property.