The Erio Ekiti community of Ekiti state has decried the activities of the Ayee secret cult members in the state.
A resident, Chief Emmanuel Ibosiola, said the community had witnessed coordinated attacks by members of the cult group since 2016.
In a statement issued by Chief Emmanuel Ibosiola in Abuja Saturday, he alleged that the attacks had been frequent that many of his family members were kidnapped by cultists since 2018 and had been missing since then.
He said the kidnapping incident occurred shortly after the death of his in-law, who was also a cultist, but whose son (his nephew) refused to follow in his father’s footsteps when approached by the other secret cult members, “hence his disappearance alongside other members of his family.”
“Apart from frequent appearance of secret cults group in Erio Ekiti since 2016, the recent attacks by the secret cults group has led to the unknown whereabouts of my nephew, Oluwafemi Moses Orewole, his brother, Mayowa Ebenezer Orewole, the mother of his children, Apesinola Deborah Oresanya and their two children, Jeremiah Adewale Orewole and Oluwaseyi Funmi Orewole.
“When my in-law, Chief Amos Orewole, a member of the secret cult group, died on January 11th, 2016, the secret cult group came to his house on January 18th, 2016. My nephew was told to come and join them and take his father‘s position, but he refused and his life has been in danger since then,” he said.
Continuing, he said, “Oluwafemi, his brother, his wife and his children were last seen during his father’s burial on March 18, 2016, and they have been declared missing since then. All efforts to know their whereabouts, through publications made in 2017 and 2018, respectively, have proved abortive. I am making another publication again this year 2019 so that anyone that knows their whereabouts can contact me on 07039337073.”
