Afimag.com –
A Traditional Ruler in Ekiti State, Alara of Ara in Ikole, Oba Sunday Fatoba, has narrated how he escaped assassination attempt that killed two of his colleagues.
Sunday Fatoba, gave the narration on February 29, 2024, while speaking at the ongoing Yoruba Security Summit held in Ile-Ife, the commercial city of Osun State.
According to the survivor, nine hefty men with gu’ns attacked him and two other kings on their way back from a security meeting.
The assassinated monarchs were the Elesun of Esun Ekiti, Oba David Babatunde Ogunsakin and the Olumojo of Imojo-Ekiti, Oba Samuel Olusola.
In what brought an abrupt end to Elesun and Olumojo, Oba Fatoba was not scattered as several gu’n shots and cutlass attacks on him did not penetrate.
Hear him, “Our attackers did not attempt to kidnap us but to kill the three of us in the car. We went for a security meeting with the monarch of Koro-Ekiti who, was killed few day after the attack on us.
“We created a special security team among the communities to curtail the rising insecurity because of our proximity to the north.
“We discovered that these evil men infiltrate Ekiti state from Kwara and Kogi states, hence, the decision to form a security forum.
“While we were returning on that day, six hefty men emerged from the bush with guns and cutlasses and started shooting at us immediately. Their intentions was not to kidnap anyone but to kill us all.
“One of them started attacking me with cutlass but it did not have any effect. Then another one started shooting at me with a pump action and it has no effect. While they pick a large three truck to smash it on my head, I had to leave the scene through the help of my…..”
“Well I just escaped to bring back help. But before I returned with vigilante group, they had killed my colleagues and escaped. The Elesun is not a weak monarch, I know him too sure, but those who attacked us had their plans well marshalled.”
