The Police have arrested four officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) for allegedly beating 36-year-old Odion Omafo Samuel to death and burying his remains in a shallow grave.

The suspects, Francis Igboh, Sunday Ogi, Samson Alolade and Joseph Onolade, attached to FRSC Abudu outpost in Edo State. They were said to have descended on the deceased after he ordered the driver of a cab he hired not to pay them a bribe.

It was gathered that Odion hired a driver of an Audi 80 car and they were flagged down at Okhuaihe Hill along Benin-Agbor Road on October 14, 2019.

When the FRSC officials attempted to extort the driver, Odion put up a resistance that, eventually, led to fisticuffs.

The driver was said to have fled the scene and Odion was beaten to a pulp.

He was reportedly rushed to a hospital and doctors confirmed him dead on arrival.

The FRSC officials were said to have buried him in a bush.

Another police source said the driver was arrested for kidnapping after Odion did not return home.

He was said to have told his story which led police to carry out detailed investigation and two of the four FRSC officials were arrested.

The two FRSC officers, Francis Igboh and Samson Alolade, took investigators to the bush where the decomposing body of Odion was evacuated.

It was learnt that the suspects accused late Odion of snatching their booking tickets.

The spokesman for Edo State Police Command, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, confirmed the incident saying it was a case of murder.

“Our operatives in the homicide section of the State Criminal and Intelligence Investigation Department (SCIID), police headquarters, Benin City are investigating the case.

“It is a case of murder,” he said.