Ekiti State police command has burst a ritualists’ shrine in Odo, a suburb of Ado Ekiti, the state capital and arrested two suspected ritualists.
The Commissioner of Police, Asuquo Amba, who led a team of officers and journalists to the forest where the shrine was located, said the hideout could be a den of kidnappers, fraudsters and other undesirable elements.
Odo, where the shrine was discovered is a satellite town of about 10 kilometres to Ado Ekiti and it is home to a private polytechnic. Asuquo said: “We trekked a few kilometres into the forest before arriving at the well laid out shrine. We discovered a hidden underground in one of the houses at the shrine and there were fetish objects all over the place. Read more