The duo appeared before Magistrate Linda Balogun on Tuesday on two counts bordering on murder.
It was gathered in court that the defendants, Tovohome and Zannu, plotted with a bolt driver who was conveying Zusu’s goods from Seme to kill him and steal the bags of rice.
However, on that day, they intercepted the boat around 2 am, at Novo River in Seme, used a plank to beat Zusu up and threw him inside the river. They thereafter carried the bags of rice to Badagry, sold them for about N1.4m to a businesswoman and shared the money.
