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By Correspondent in Ilorin.
Suspected group of boys have stabbed two youn boys to death at Adifa and Centre Igboro areas of Ilorin, Kwara state capital.
SP Okasanmi Ajayi, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the Police Command, made the disclosure in a statement he signed on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, CP Tuesday Assayomo,and a copy available to The Reporters on Saturday.
He qouted the CP as having decried over the report of the killing of two young boys named Lukman and Kudus.
Assayomo said that the attack was allegedly “carried out by a group of boys, led by one Habeeb Ganiyu ‘M’ of Agbarere area of Ilorin,who stabbed the deceased several times in the chest.”
“The victims were rushed to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital by men of Oja Oba Police station after responding to the distress call, the victims were confirmed dead immediately they arrived at UITH by the doctors on duty.
“The suspect that led the group that carried out the attack, one Habeeb Ganiyu ‘M’, who was also seriously injured was arrested.
“The immediate/remote cause(s) of the fatal attack is yet to be unraveled,” CP Assayomo said.
The Commissioner said he had ordered discreet investigation into the matter by deploying strategies that would lead to the arrest of the fleeing attackers.
He warned that any body found to have contributed to the ugly process that led to the death of the victims would be arrested and made to bear the full weight of the law.
CP Assayomo,who assured the people of the area in particular and the state in general of their safety and security at all times, advised law breakers to vacate the state, stressing that “anyone arrested for committing any crime would be dealt with in accordance to the laws of the land.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
