Another Yoruba monarch killed, wife abducted

Information reaching the OsunReporters News confirmed that a traditional ruler in Kwara state, Oba Peter Aremu, the Onikoro of Koro-Ekiti in Ekiti Local Government Area has been killed.

Accorsing to the State Public Relations Officer, CSP Ejire Adeyemi-Tohun, who confirmed this on Thursday in llorin, said the king’s killers also kidnapped his wife.

In her words, “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.

Adeyemi-Tohun added that 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 added.

The killing of traditional rullers is ranpant in recent times in Nigeria.