PREGNANT WOMAN HACKED TO DEATH IN EKITI
Penpushing recalled that Governor Fayose had on Wednesday met with Fulani and Tiv leaders, and urged them to exercise restraint as security agencies investigate the matter.
Similarly, a referendum is being planned for the town in regard to the vacant traditional stool of the Olirin of Orin Ekiti, which holds on Saturday.
Confirming the incident, a former chairman of the local government, Sanmi Olubummo, said another person sustained severe injuries and was receiving treatment at a hospital, adding that police officers from Ido-Ekiti Divisional Headquarters visited the scene of the killing, but noted that there was calm in the town.
“The incident happened inside the Orin Farm Settlement. Nobody knows what led to the crisis in the early hours of Thursday but our people said the Bororo herdsmen killed the pregnant woman,” he said.
The Regent and the Olorin-in-Council stated that the referendum would hold on Saturday to resolve controversies surrounding the royal stool despite the incident.
The Ekiti State Police Commissioner, Abdullahi Chafe, when contacted said he was yet to be briefed on the incident, “I am not in Ekiti, so I have not been briefed about the incident,” he said.
