Within the space of 48 hours, three persons have been killed by Gunmen on motorcycles in different locations in Ado Ekiti .
The first attack was recorded when these gunmen shot a middle-aged man identified as Samuel Omoyajowo, around Okesa Roundabout near the Governor’s office in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday morning.
Today, at about 7.30am, a Point of Sale (POS) agent, popularly called Alfa, was murdered along the Teaching Hospital area of Ado Ekiti.
According to witnesses, the gunmen, who came on a motorbike, shot and killed Alfa and made away with an anonymous amount of money and other valuables at his POS shop.
His corpse has been deposited in the morgue by the Police.
At about 3pm, the same bike gun men shot and killed a man selling rice on a wheelbarrow at the Bisi market in the heart of Ado Ekiti.
This attacks which instilled fear in the people of the affected areas and the state at large, forces them to flee their business places for safety, refusing to return to the market for now.
Alternatively, security agencies collaborated joining forces together, have stormed the streets to stop the recurring murders and bring the offender to justic.
One of the leaders of the armed security men, who spoke anonymously, disclosed that the assailants might be secret cult members, saying that their modus operandi in all the killings were the same.
He said that the Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has given them the marching order to comb the streets and fish out the criminals giving the people sleepless nights.
Reacting to the ugly developments, the Ekiti State police spokesperson, Sunday Abutu, a deputy superintendent of police, said the commissioner of police has ordered an investigation into the incidents to ensure that the criminals are arrested and brought to justice.
“Immediately we got the information, we mobilised our men to the scene. The man (POS agent) was found lying in a pool of his blood and was moved to the general hospital where he was confirmed dead. His body has been deposited in the m
orgue,” he said.
