A young man has died in Crown Polythenic area of Odo in Ado, Ekiti State due to cultism.
The 29 year-old boy who was identified as Sunday Abudioke was killed after a brutal attack on him by suspected members of dreaded confraternity.
The young man who had a medicine dispensary shop very closed to the institution was slashed in the head with axe and matcheted to death by suspected cult members.
Those who killed Sunday were said to be members of a confraternity group from crown Polythenic, Odo community, Ado Ekiti.
Sunday whose wife put to bed some three weeks ago, was said to have been visited by an unknown friend in his home.
However, the friend’s identity was not known to his wife, Yetunde, who claimed that the friend lured her husband to come to Odo and open one of his shop for business on the fateful day.
The deceased who reluctantly agreed to the friend’s request, later traveled on a commercial motorcycle, popularly called Okada alongside the friend to Odo community, a few kilometers away from Ado Ekiti, the state capital.
A source, who was at the scene of the incident, said Sunday had been away from the area for sometime, apparently fearing that he would be killed.
Another Source who resides very close to Sunday’s shop said the deceased person closed his shop at dusk and was waiting to get a vehicle that would transport him to Ado Ekiti where he lived when a sport utility jeep emerged from the Crown Polytechnic and he boarded the vehicle with the hope of getting to Ado Ekiti, which is about five kilometers to Odo Community.
It was gathered that Sunday, the only son in the family could not complete his five kilometers journey as he was dumped gasping for air, between Odo Community and Ado Ekiti, where a good Samaritan who was passing- by found him and took his body to the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti for urgent medical attention.
Report also had it that the assailants did not take proceeds from his sales, which was around N15,000, but took away his mobile phone.
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