Ekiti community denies complicity in corps member’s disappearance     14/3/2009
     

Odunayo Ogunmola, Ado-ekiti

The[b] people of Ilawe-Ekiti, the headquarters of Ekiti South West Local Government Area of Ekiti State, have denied complicity in the disappearance of a youth corps member who served in the community, Miss Antonia Amarachi Okeke.
Okeke, who served as the Corps Liaison Officer (CLO) in the local government area was last seen on December 19, 2008, year when she was reportedly conveyed to Ado-Ekiti by a commercial motorcyclist (okada), Theophilus Pius, to board a vehicle to her native Enugu State. [/b] Pius, who is of Igbo extraction like Okeke, is being detained at the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID) of the state Police Command alongside an Ado-Ekiti-based muslim cleric whose names appear on the documents of the motorcycle used to convey Okeke on the said date.

But the publication of the story is causing ripples in the Ilawe-Ekiti community which is unhappy with the damage the report had done to the image of the of the town, especially with the threat by the authorities of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to stop posting corps members to the community.

The community maintained that it has a reputation of being hospitable and cooperative towards corps members, saying holding the community liable for Okeke’s disappearance is a disservice to both the community and the corpers which is capable of sending wrong signals to the outside world. Addressing a news conference on yesterday at the palace of the Alawe of Ilawe-Ekiti, Oba Joseph Adeyemi Ademileka, the umbrella body of Ilawe indigenes, the Ilawe Improvement Union (IPU), absolved the community of blame over the mysterious disappearance of the corper.

The national president of the IPU, Chief Lawrence Egunjobi, said the Alawe and the traditional council of the community are very much concerned about the missing corper, maintaining that the good name of Ilawe is being dragged in the mud over the issue.

Egunjobi said while the people of the town sympathise with the family of the missing corper and the NYSC authorities over the development, the Ilawe community should not be held responsible for her disappearance as the "girl did not get lost within the community but outside the community." The community leader told newsmen that preliminary investigation revealed that the motorcyclist dropped Okeke at a location in Ado-Ekiti where she could get transport to Enugu to celebrate Christmas and New Year festivities but it was reported through her colleagues that she did not reach Enugu, neither did she return to Ilawe.

Egunjobi said: "This report led the Police to start investigating the matter; both the motorcyclist who picked the missing corper from Ilawe to Ado and his wife were arrested for interrogation and statements, and both are still with the Police.

             


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from assassination to kidnapping?

Muza:

from assassination to kidnapping?

shut up. idiota

What do you know, we're finally getting Nigerialized. What a shame

The next Ekiti Parapo meetings will be very interesting

doyin13:

The next Ekiti Parapo meetings will be very interesting

Doyin, you could be our village jester

Easy. . .just submit urself for daily ravishing and i will jest to Ekiti's content

doyin13:

Easy. . .just submit urself for daily ravishing and i will jest to Ekiti's content

so that "she" can have me for dinner?
I think not






Home Ekiti Home

;d ;d

Finally, kidnapping has moved from its natural home, the Niger Delta home of Dakobu to other parts. However Yorubas should endeavour to kidnap ONLY govt officials and not Igbos living among them, as was the case with the one in Owo where Igbo traders where kidnapped, and perhaps, this one.

;d