EKITI State government is sad over the killing in Omuo Ekiti of a
seventy-year old woman identified as Madam Rebecca Adewunmi accused of
witchcraft.
The daughter of the deceased woman, Mrs. Grace Smith, said some youths in the community conspired to kill her mother.
The State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Social Development and
Gender Empowerment, Mrs. Fola Richie-Adewusi, yesterday, described the
act as criminal, barbaric and a contravention of laid down laws.
Richie-Adewusi, who lamented that such an unfortunate incidence could
still happen in this modern age, said it was sad that the poor old woman
was killed based on alleged dream by a little girl that she had a hand
in the illness of her stepson.
The Commissioner also faulted the failure of the police to make any
arrest since June 30 when the incident occurred, just because some
prominent leaders in the community reportedly advised the police against
wading into a witchcraft case.
Saying that the signing into law of the Ekiti State Gender Based
Violence Prohibition bill by Governor Kayode Fayemi last November had
made such barbaric act a criminal matter in Ekiti State with great
consequences, she called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of
the perpetrators of the dastardly act.
“It is clear that the perpetrators of this dastardly act have
contravened this law and they should be made to face the full wrath of
the law. This act is condemnable and we hope the law enforcement agents
will live up to their responsibility and bring all the perpetrators to
book”, she added.
Meanwhile, counsel to the family of the deceased, Mr. Femi Omotoso,
has, in a petition to Ekiti State Police Command, demanded
investigation into the circumstances leading to the death of the woman
and prosecution of the culprits.
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