Kwara community denies hosting ritualist

Date: 2020-03-16

The Omupo Descendants Union in Ilorin, Kwara, says the community is not hosting any ritualist.

The community is reacting to social media speculations and online publications that a ritualist inhabits Omupo community known as Idi-Ifa, Arole Compound.

The union made its position known in a letter signed by the union's National President, Dr Monisoye Olorunsola-Afolabi, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Ilorin

The letter, entitled: "Re: Pandemonium in Omupo over three human heads, body parts found with ritualist", was addressed to the State Governor, Commissioner of Police, Director of State Security and Operanews.

According to the letter, the publication was false, adding that the report has caused untold embarrassment to the Royalty and the entire good people of the town.

"We wish to state without any iota of equivocation that the story is false in its entirety as nothing of what was reported happened in our domain.

"While we are unsure of the motive or objective of a report of such potentially damaging magnitude, we wish to state as follows, for the avoidance of doubt and to demonstrate that such an incident did not happen in our domain," it said.

Afolabi noted that the publishers attributed their source to Kwara TV.

He explained that when contacted, the station denied any knowledge of such a story, adding that as at March 12, 2020, Kwara TV published a rebuttal on its Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kwara Council Platform.

The national president of the union also said the report also wrongly claimed that the Police Public Relations Officer of the Kwara State Command was Mrs Olaniyi Aweda, which he said is false.

He noted that the authentic Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Kwara State Police Command is DSP Olasunkanmi Ajayi.

According to him, when contacted, the PPRO denied that his command has any knowledge of the purported incidence or any "ongoing" investigation of such, contrary to what was publicised.

"In view of the foregoing, we are compelled to believe that there is a sinister motive" by the publishers and/or their "accomplices to bring the peace-loving and good people of Omupo to ridicule and public odium through the story under reference.

"Consequently, we have demanded a conspicuous rebuttal of the story in its entirety, with a formal apology to the monarch, the Olomu of Omupo Land and his entire subjects by the publishers of the said story," he said.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwabes     Mohammed Yisa     Olatunji Ayeni     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Tunde Akanbi     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Pilgrims Board     Okin Malt     Kwara State Government     Folajimi Aleshinloye     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Ethical College     Kola Olota     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Idofin     Muhammadu Buhari     KWIRS     Hamza Usman     Ilorin Curfew     Biliaminu Aliu     Matthew Okedare     Ayo Salami     Olabode George Towoju     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Vasolar Consortium     Olupako Of Share     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Maryam Ado Bayero     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Basit Olatunji     Kunle Akogun     Tunji Oyawoye     Lanre Aremu     TVC Female National Debate     ASKOMP     Idowu Laro     BIR     Elelu     Bello Abubakar     Bashir Badawi     Shuaibu Yaman     Kabir Shagaya     Lola Olabayo     John Kehinde Salako     Elese Of Igbaja     Afonja     N-Power     KW-GIS     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Tanke Road     Kwara University Of Education     Olaoye B. Felix     Muhammed Aliyu     Saliu Mustapha     Sulu Gambari     Abubakar Usman Jos     Amos Sayo     Moses Rahman Popoola     Students Union Government     Kwara Basketball Association     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Umar Saro     Centre For Digital Economy     Air Peace     Bilikisu Gambari     Ayinde Oki     Towoju     Okoolowo     Unicontinental Construction Company     Aremu Bose Deborah     Obuh     Abdulrasaq Alaro    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

John Obuh     Rafiu Ibrahim     Ayedun     Onilorin     Aso-ofi     Aliyu Adebayo     Idris Amosa Saidu     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Fatimat Saliu     Salaudeen Oyewale     Nagode     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Sai Kayi     Aremu Odolaye     Oloyede     Marufat Oladosu     Timothy Akangbe     Women Radio     Yemi Sanni     Sa\'adu Salau     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     National Party Of Nigeria     Orisa Bridge     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Labaeka     Ebola     Niyi Osundare     Titus Ashaolu     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Laduba     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Yashikira     Charcoal     Babaita     Wasiu Onidugbe     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Simon Sayomi     KW-GIS     Erubu     SSA Youth     Elerin Of Adanla     Olaiya Zuberu     Ahmad Ali     Saliu Tunde Bello     Kwara 2023     Ibrahim Mohammed     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Shero     Bashirat Bola Bello     Bibire Ajape     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     IPSAS     Public Holiday     Kwara State Governor     Adamu Attah     Ajike People Support Centre     Bamikole Omishore     Usman Rifun     Barakat Community Secondary School     Offa Descendants Union     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Aliyu Sabi     Lanre Olosunde     Ibrahim Jawondo     Garba Dogo     Centre For Digital Economy     Balogun Ajikobi     NIPR     Amina El-Imam     Tunde Oyawoye     Imam Gambari     Monsurat Omotosho     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Air Peace     Sam Onile