OPC Leader In Police Net Over Murder Of Undergraduate
The leader of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) in Ikere-Ekiti, Mr. Dele Olorunfemi has been arrested by the Police in Ekiti State over alleged murder of one Faramo Tope said to be student of University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti Centre.
It was gathered that he was hit by bullets allegedly fired by some OPC men led by Olorunfemi at about 9.30 pm on Wednesday.
The deceased, according to residents who spoke on the condition of anonymity, was shot along Winners’ Chapel area of the town while on a commercial motorcycle but his corpse was later dumped behind College Demonstration School.
Sources disclosed that the incident was reported at Anaye Police Station in Uro Quarters of the town by the commercial motorcyclist who witnessed the killing of his passenger and identified the suspects.
Residents of the area where the corpse was dumped also reported the killing at the same police station.
Olorunfemi was subsequently arrested and detained at the station before he was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), following the report of the alleged murder.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abdullahi Chafe, who confirmed the incident in a telephone chat with journalists in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, said only one person has been arrested.
Chafe said: “I can confirm that such an incident occurred, one person has been arrested and he will be transferred to the State Criminal
Investigation Department (SCID) for further investigation.
The corpse of the student has been deposited at the morgue of the State Specialist Hospital, along Ise Road, Ikere Ekiti.
A cleric, Pastor David Owotobi, said the corpse was dumped when members of his church were having all night prayer.
Owotobi said: “After our programme in the church, our members were going back home and they came back to report that a corpse was dropped very close to our church.
“I went there when and I saw the corpse there; on the second day very early in the morning, I went to the police station to report what happened on our street.”
