Police Confirm Killing of Traditional Ruler, Abduction of Wife in Kwara
The Police Command in Kwara State on Thursday in Ilorin confirmed the killing of a traditional ruler in the state, Peter Aremu, the Onikoro of Koro-Ekiti in the Ekiti Local Government Area in the state.
Ejire Adeyemi-Tohun, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the police command, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) late Thursday in llorin.
Ms Adeyemi-Tohun, a chief superintendent of police, added that the king's assailants also kidnapped his wife.
“The gunmen invaded the residence of the traditional ruler in the evening and killed him and went away with his wife,” the Police PRO said.
The police spokesperson said some police personnel, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Koro-Ekiti, were already at the palace of the late traditional ruler.
“They have begun investigations into the whereabouts of the killers, as well as the abductors of the late king's wife,” she said.
(NAN)
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Yemi Osinbajo Wahab Abayawo Hamza Usman Gamji Members Association Bello Taoheed Abubakar Yakubu Gobir Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations Fola Consultant Aliyu Kora Sabi Issa Oloruntogun JUSUN Oluwatoyin Lukman ASUU Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa Wahab Isa Kale Kawu Gbenga Olawepo Alagbado Ahman Pategi Share/Tsaragi ENetSuD Odolaye Aremu Okin Biscuit Tayo Awodiji Kudirat Arinola Lawal Ladi Hassan Sunday Otokiti Quareeb Funmilayo Mohammed Babata Yakub Ali-Agan KWASIEC Babaloja-General Gbenga Adebayo MINILS Kayode Zubair Ahmed Dankaya Sheikh Ariyibi Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd Kamaldeen Kehinde Haruna Olawale Sulaiman Saadu Alanamu Oko Erin Onikijipa Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board Ahmed \'Lateef Yusuf A. Usman Anilelerin Sidikat Akaje Tafida Of Ilorin Valsolar Consultoria Pakata Development Association Saliu Mustapha Vishvas KOZ Tractors Olabode Towoju Raymond Olaitan Kwara State Branch Of The National Library Femi Ogunsola Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro Coalition Of Kwara North Groups Galadima Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists Emir Of Shonga Oke-Ogun Niguel Gallando Marcias Christopher Odetunde Balogun Gambari Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet Laduba Bibire Ajape Elesie Of Esie Undergraduate Bursary Christian Association Of Nigeria Gbemisola Oguntimehin

