Three arrested over suspicious death of 71-year-old cleric in Ondo

Three persons person been arrested by the Ondo State Police Command successful transportation with the decease of a 71-year-old cleric of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Elder Omotayo Fajana, whose assemblage was discovered nether suspicious circumstances successful Akungba-Akoko.

Fajana reportedly travelled to the municipality successful Akoko South-West Local Government Area for a religion programme wherever helium was scheduled to beryllium installed arsenic the Baba Aladura of Ogo Orimolade Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Okerigbo, Akungba-Akoko.

The incidental has generated contention pursuing allegations that the cleric’s assemblage was removed from a edifice country and taken to a mortuary successful Ikare-Akoko without certification of decease by a qualified aesculapian doctor.

The substance was reported to the Akungba Police Division by the deceased’s nephew, Olaseni Sunday Olaoluwa, who requested a thorough probe into the circumstances surrounding his uncle’s death.

Confirming the improvement connected Monday, the Police Public Relations Officer successful the state, DSP Abayomi Jimoh, said the bid had commenced a broad probe to find the origin of death.