A 14-year-old pupil of Government Science
College at Iyin-Ekiti in Irepodun/Ifelodun
Local Government Area of Ekiti State has
been found a day after she was alleged to
have been missing. Sources said the girl,
who is still recovering, was discovered
unconscious and was taken to the Federal
Medical Centre in Ido-Ekiti for treatment. The
incident
A 14-year-old pupil of Government Science
College at Iyin-Ekiti in Irepodun/Ifelodun
Local Government Area of Ekiti State has
been found a day after she was alleged to
have been missing. Sources said the girl,
who is still recovering, was discovered
unconscious and was taken to the Federal
Medical Centre in Ido-Ekiti for treatment. The
incident occurred when the girl told her
school mates during a prep session at about
8.30pm on Tuesday that she was not feeling
well and therefore went back to the
dormitory to rest. Before she got to the
dormitory, she allegedly got missing and all
efforts to locate her by her school mates,
housemaster and other teachers proved
abortive. The sources, however, said that the
girl, who they claimed might have been
kidnapped for ritual purpose, was
discovered unconscious and naked the
following morning (yesterday) at the
premises of a private school in the
community. The Ekiti State Commissioner for
Education, Mr. Kehinde Ojo, confirmed to
journalists on telephone yesterday that the
girl was discovered at a remote section of
Femi Balogun Nursery and Primary School at
Iyin-Ekiti at the early hours of yesterday by a
retired principal and the school proprietor.
Ojo said that the proprietor had reported
the case at Iyin Police Station before the girl,
who was already in an unconscious state
and stripped naked, was taken to the
Federal Medical Centre in Ido-Ekiti for
treatment. The commissioner said:
“Preliminary medical examination had
shown that the girl was neither
**** nor
hit by hard object. Though she has regained
consciousness and responding well to
treatment”. The police spokesman, Mr. Victor
Babayemi, said nobody had been arrested in
connection with the circumstances
surrounding the situation. Babayemi said:
“We want to make sure that the girl is on
her feet to give us enough information to
help our investigations before we start
saying what actually happened. It can be
ritual or kidnap attack. We are not leaving
anything to chance because it can be
anything”.