The traditional ruler of Oreke-Okegbo community, Ifelodun LGA of Kwara State, Oba Sunday Adefila, has faulted the information released by the police following the killing of two mobile policemen and abduction of two others, including a Chinese and a Nigerian miner, by armed men at a mining site on Wednesday.
In a telephone interview with DAILY POST on Saturday, the monarch said, “The incident did not occur in Oreke-Okegbo as claimed by the police, but in Oreke-Oke.”
Adefila, a former General Manager of the Kwara state Environmental Protection Agency, KWEPA, claimed that there is no mining facility in Oreke-Okegbo community, adding that “the incident happened at Oreke-Oke as there are two Orekes in the area”.
While the rifles of the deceased police officers were carted away by the armed men, two others were abducted. The gunmen are demanding ransom to free them.
Police sources disclosed that the abductors have demanded N1 billion ransom for the release of the two captives.
DAILY POST quoted the traditional ruler as querying, “What is going on in this country? The incident was not in Oreke-Okegbo, no mining site is situated in my community and as the Kabiyesi of Oreke-Okegbo community, I debunk the story inasmuch as we have two Orekes, and mine is Oreke-Okegbo.”
He called on the police command to retract its report on the incident in order to disabuse the mind of the public as it did not happen in his domain.
The Oba said he has been bombarded with calls from within and outside the country following the report, which has gone viral.
Efforts to reach the spokesperson of the state police command SP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi on Sunday were unsuccessful.
