The Edo State Command of the Nigerian Police Force has effected the arrest of Joshua Osaigbovo, aged 31 years old in connection to the death of his girlfriend, Osato Festus Edogiaweria aged 21 years who was declared missing in April 2025.
According to an official statement released on Sunday by Moses Yamu, the Police Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command, the force commenced investigating into the matter when Mrs Ojo, the mother of the deceased filed a missing person report at Aduwawa Division on April 25, 2025.
The case was later transferred to the State Criminal Investigations Department for further investigative works in line with the command’s effort to reduce crime to its barest minimum.
The statement added, “Operatives of the Family Unit, through painstaking investigation and technical intelligence, arrested one Joshua Osaigbovo, a resident of Iyanomon community in Ikpoba-Okha LGA in connection with the crime on 18th June, 2025.”
“During interrogation, the suspect confessed to inviting Osato to his residence on April 27. An altercation broke out between the two, during which Osato fell, hit her head on the ground, and died.”
“Osaigbovo further confessed to taking the young woman’s body in a wheelbarrow to a nearby bush, where he buried her in a shallow grave a few meters from his home.
“On June 20, 2025, Osaigbovo led police operatives to the burial site in the Iyanomon community. The remains of Osato Festus were exhumed following all necessary procedures. The suspect is expected to be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded,” he said.
