Former Osun Governor’s Office Staff Murdered In Her House
Tragedy struck in Osogbo, the Osun State capital last week, as people suspected to be hired assassins allegedly macheted a female Christian cleric, Evangelist Odeniran Motunrayo, to death at her residence.
Odeniran, a mother of three, who was the founder and spiritual head of Land of Goshen Interdenominational Prayer City located at Adelubi village, Ogbaagba, Agodo area, Owode-Ede, retired last year as the pay mistress at the Bureau of Special Duties, Office of the Governor of Osun State.
OSUN DEFENDER gathered that, since her retirement from active civil service, she has embarked on evangelism within and outside the state.
The medium learnt that the late cleric had travelled on evangelism for some days and returned home penultimate Saturday to prepare for Sunday service, not knowing that the men of the underworld had planned to kill her.
The deceased, who was until her death a widow, was the only person living at her residence located at Number 4, Irewumi Street, Aroko Estate, Ogo Oluwa, Osogbo, as her three children are already married.
The eldest child of the deceased, Odeniran Abiodun said: “We are aware that she travelled and called us that she returned home on Saturday. We expected her in church on Sunday, but we didn’t see her, believing that she was tired as a result of her long trip. We also tried to call her, but her two lines were off and that was why I decided to call someone to help me check her at home.
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“The person I sent to check her later called me and when I got to her house we noticed that the door was closed and when we entered we saw her in the pool of her own blood with machete cuts on her head.
“I could not hold the situation, when I saw my mother’s lifeless body lying helplessly on the floor in the kitchen. Her head was macheted in seven different places and there was machete cuts on other parts of her body. We called the police and police officers from Ataoja police division came around. The corpse was thereafter taken to the UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital morgue.”
Findings revealed that the suspected assailants did not cart away anything from the deceased’s residence as her belongings, including cars and church bus were intact.
However, the two phones of the deceased cleric were carted away and the lines could not be reached as at the time of this report.
Confirming the incident, the Public Relations Officer of the Osun Police Command, Mrs Yemisi Opalola said investigation is ongoing to bring the culprits to book.
“Yes, it is true. She was killed last week. Investigation is going on to arrest the perpetrators and bring them to book,” Opalola noted.
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