Slain Monarch Oba Ayinde Odetola buried amidst tears and tight security

Slain Monarch Oba Ayinde Odetola buried amidst tears and tight security

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The slain late oba of Agodo, Oba Ayinde Odetola was yesterday buried in the ancient town of Agodo in Ewekoro local Government amidst tears and wailing with water tight security arrangements.

Guests and residents started arriving at the venue early in the day to give the departed monarch a rousing farewell.

All vehicles and motorcycles coming to the town were thoroughly searched before allowing to proceed to the designated area for motor parks.

Delivery the sermon at the interdenominational funeral Service, Pastor quoting from the scripture admonish perpetrators of evil to have a change of heart in order to avoid divine destruction of their lives, the clergy man noted further

” It is a common knowledge that oba olaayinde odetola was not involved in an accident, or sick or died peacefully in his sleep, but he was brutally murdered.”

He queried further on

“What offence could he have committed to warrant his killing in the hands of his people”

“Those who can not give life should not take life, they committed the offence and ran away” he lamented.

He praised the efforts of the Police for exceptional performance in this case in which a good number of the suspects were apprehended and arraigned in the court.

The clergy man later prayed for the family and the body in white casket was later intered in the family compound around 4pm

The burial witnessed a large turn out and present at the occasion were, Representatives of Obas, imo council of chiefs, Members of estate developers association, residents of the nearby villages, a large contingents of the Army, Police, So-safe corps, Vigilante SSS and wellwishers.

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