Ilotin area of Ikole Ekiti has been thrown into mourning over the murder of a 35 year-old Chief in the community, Sola Fatunla.
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Chief Fatunla, who is the Onibedo of Ilotin, Ikole Ekiti was killed and his corpse set ablaze by some assailants led by a Tiv man, identified as Sunday.
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Sunday, who is said to be into charcoal business, had accused Chief Fatunla of snatching his wife, Miss Tadeni. Both Sunday and Tadeni were married with two kids before the marriage collapsed.
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After Sunday had found out that Miss Tadeni and Chief Fatunla were merely family friends, he apologised to him, only for Sunday to have pleaded with Fatunla to assist him in using his position as a Chief in Ikole Ekiti to plead with those he claimed seized his charcoal.
While accompany him to where his charcoal was seized on Sunday, the Tiv man allegedly connived with others to abduct Chief Fatunla and Miss Tadeni, somewhere around Iyemero Ekiti, in Ikole Local Government area of Ekiti State.
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He was tied to a tree, strangled to death and his corpse set on fire.
However, Miss Tadeni, escaped from the abductors while Sunday and his other accomplices, who had fled, were caught by vigilante men in Patigi area of Kwara State while trying to escape.
When the vigilante men stopped Sunday and his gangs and were questioning them as to their mission in the area, especially during the lock down, Chief Fatunla’s phone that Sunday kept in his pocket rang and he refused to answer the call. One of the vigilante men collected the phone and answered the call only to be told that the owner of the phone was abducted.
The vigilantes then handed Sunday and others to the police in Kwara State.
As at press time, Chief Fatunla’s has been recovered and deposited in the mortuary while Sunday and his men are being detained by the police in Ekiti State.
A High Chief in Ikole Ekiti, Tunde Ogunleye, who confirmed the incidence to our reporter described the murder as barbaric and animalistic, urging the police to bring the culprits to justice.
