A five-year-old boy, Feranmi Oloyede, was found dangling on a tree at the back of his house, Moferere in Ajilosun area of Ado-Ekiti last Friday. Residents in the area were shocked when they discovered the body of the boy, who was described as being lively, hanging on the tree...
Daily Sun investigations revealed that the primary 1 pupil of St. Louis Nursery and Primary School, Ikere-Ekiti, was playing with a rope tied to the branch of the tree and, having climbed a table under the tree, he tied the rope around his neck and his leg slipped off the table and he got hanged.
Since there was nobody at the back of the house where he was playing with the rope, he had died before he was discovered.
Efforts to contact his parents, especially his mother, who had a shop at a shopping complex at Moferere proved abortive as she had been taken away to an undisclosed place to console her.
Residents had fled the area for fear of police arrest, because it was being rumoured that the boy was killed by some faceless people and later brought to the compound and noosed to make it appear he hanged himself.
When Daily Sun contacted the spokesman of the state Police Command, Mohammed Jimoh, an assistant superintendent of police (ASP), he said the command was not aware of the incident.
The remains of the boy, sources said, had since been buried......
