Ooni’s Security Aide Shot Dead In Ife By Robbers

 

Men suspected to be armed robbers, shot dead a security

guard attached to the private home of the Ooni of Ife, Oba

Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi located at Parakin Quarters

yesterday February 9th.

The security guard who was an officer of the Nigeria

Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), had stepped out

of the compound to buy recharge card when he was

sighted by the fleeing robbers who shot him and then

made away with his rifle.

He was confirmed dead at the Obafemi Awolowo

University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife

where he was rushed to.

Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the NSCDC

command in Osun, Wale Folarin, said

“It is true one of our officers attached to the Ooni’s

palace was shot dead by some unidentified persons in

front of a private residence of the Ooni. The killers went

away with his gun. He died at the OAUTHC hospital Ife.

We have arrested three suspects in connection with the

crime and investigations continue as the command will

get to the root of the matter”.