At about 7:10pm on Sunday 9th February, 2025, one Moses Toyin of Odo-Emure Street, Emure-Ekiti, came in distress to Emure Divisional Police Headquarters and reported that her husband, one Moses Joshua instructed their daughter, one MOSES FAITH, to go check his trap in his farm along Okeseri Road, Emure-Ekiti, before embarking on a journey to Oka Akoko in Ondo State,
According to her, while Moses Faith was going to the farm to check the trap, she went with her younger brother, one Moses Testimony “5 yrs”.
On getting to the farm, information from the younger brother who escaped from the scene has it that two men accosted them and threatened to either have carnal knowledge of Moses Faith or kill her. She refused and struggled with with them and in the process, they brought out two cutlasses, slit her throat and cut off her right hand.
Statement by the Police Public Relations Officer if the State, SP Abutu Sunday says upon receipt of the information, Police operatives from Emure Division swung into action and cordon off the farm.
“Two suspects, one Bashir Alaba “31yrs” and Mohammad Jamiu “36yrs”, were arrested very close to the scene of crime with two cutlasses suspected to have been used for the heinous act. Investigation in progress”. Said he.
