3 NABBED FOR MURDERING,SECRETLY BURYING 13-yr-old

The police in Ekiti State have detained three persons, who are said to be in logging business, for allegedly killing a 13-year-old, Abubakar Abdullahi, and secretly burying his body. The murder was said to have occurred in Ifaki Ekiti community in Ido/Osi Local Government area of the state, on Monday, May 1, 2017. Sources claimed that the late Abdullahi had been following the suspects, whose names were given as Ojo Sunday (19); Bidemi O. (18) and Adeyeye Miracle (14), to the forest for tree felling activities. However, on Monday when the suspects were said to have arrived in the community from the forest without Abdullahi, they were asked about the whereabouts of the deceased. The trio were said to have initially denied that Abdullahi didn’t accompany them to the farm, thereby forcing the deceased’s parents to declare him missing. “These three persons deceived the parents of the deceased that they didn’t see the boy, even when they had killed him for no reason. They reported the case at the police station and the police were searching everywhere for him without making headway.” “Later the police got the trio arrested and subjected them to torture where they extracted useful information that the boy had been killed inside the farm,” the source stated. The initial accusation was that the boy might have been killed for ritual purpose. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Alberto Adeyemi, who confirmed the incident, however, denied that it was a ritual killing. He said ritual killing was “far from the truth contrary to the popular opinion in Ifaki Ekiti.” Adeyemi said: “We have arrested the three persons that took Abubakar to the farm. They are in our custody as we speak. What they told us was that he had been following the suspects to farm where they fell trees.” “But that day one of the trees fell on the boy and killed him and instead of reporting to the police, they buried him inside the bush and feigned ignorance of his death.” “We will charge them to court as soon as possible. But let me also say that our men are still investigating the matter, so that we can get more facts and details about the incident.” ***prbxselfnetwork***