Percy Onyeka
Three siblings were found dead on Sunday after being strangled in a parked car in Ilorin. Victor Olaiya, the commissioner of police for Kwara State, has launched a covert inquiry into their deaths.
Toun Ejire-Adeyemi (DSP), a spokeswoman for the police command, confirmed the development to News Agency on Tuesday.
The police commissioner has ordered the SIB to proceed with the covert investigation in an effort to get to the bottom of the issue, she informed newsmen, despite the family’s desire to resolve the dispute internally.
On Monday, police officers conducted a fact-finding visit to the incident site at No. 8, Boluke Lane, Zango-Kulende quarters, Ilorin.
However, it was learnt that they could not gain entrance into the building as the gate was under lock and key and nobody was around to welcome them.
The police operatives then proceeded to the family house of the late siblings’ mother, Silifat, at Ile Magaji, Taiwo Isale road, Ilorin, where she is recuperating after she fainted as a result of the tragic incident.
The mother was reportedly queried for not reporting the matter officially.
Meanwhile, the landlord of the residence where the siblings died has issued a notice to quit to their father, identified as Abdulkadir Jimoh, who has reportedly gone into hiding since the tragic incident occurred on Sunday afternoon.
Abdulkadir, a barbing salon operator at Oke-Andi, Zango-Kulende area, was said to have borrowed the ill-fated car where the three children died from her sister for the naming ceremony of his second wife’s newborn nine days ago.
Agency Report
