Tears flow unrestrained from the eyes of
thousands of market women and men in
Ijebuland as the remains of the slain
Iyaloja of Ijebuland , Alhaja Sadia Elewuju ,
arrived her Itorin – Sabo residence
preparatory for burial according to Muslim
The hearse bearing her remains was
draped in white clothes pulled – up at her
home by noon amid crowd of mourners
and sympathizers who bemoaned the
gruesome killing of the 82 years woman .
Security agencies who had earlier
cordoned off the residence near Otunba
Gbenga Daniel Estate , Itorin – Sabo area
of Ijebu – Ode, had a hectic time trying to
control sympathizers who kept wailing and
cursing the suspected murderers .
The Nation gathered that the assailants
struck when her male househelps were
away to the market to buy food items for
entertainment of guests ahead of the break
of the Ramadan fast.
However , the Ogun state Police Command
have vowed to arrest the killers of the 82
years old Iyaloja of Ijebuland , Alhaja Sadia
Elewuju , and bring them to justice as a
new Police Commissioner , Abdulmajid Alli ,
resumed on Thursday afternoon .
Alhaja Elewuju was said to have been
attacked around 4 pm am on Wednesday
when her suspected assailants invaded her
Itorin – Sabo home, Ijebu – Ode , shooting
and also inflicting severe matchet cuts on
her before leaving the octogenerian in a
pool of blood .
Alli , who took over from Mr . Valentine
Ntomchukwu by 12 :34 pm on Thursday
said hoodlums and cultists terrorising
Ijebuland would be flushed out , adding that
Ogun state would also be made unsafe for
criminals .
Also , the Ogun Police Command ’ s Public
Relations Officer , Olumuyiwa Adejobi, told
reporters that people suspected to be
“ hoodlums” attacked the elderly woman
and the Police found her in a pool of blood
when someone informed them about the
attack Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent of
Police (DSP ) said the police are on the trail
of the Elewuju ’ s killers , assuring that the
Police would put measures in place to
avoid similar killings in future. According
him, the woman was taken to a hospital in
Sagamu but later transfered to a Lagos
based hospital where she died .
He explained that the new Police
Commissioner , Alli , will visit the family of
late Iyaloja soon to commiserate with
them and also give the family the
assurance that the culprits would be
brought to book . According to him, the
Command is not unaware of the peculiar
nature of crimes being committed in Ijebu
– Ode as the Police would not leave any
stone unturned in ensuring that innocent
lives are not wasted by criminals .
The Police in Ijebu – Ode and detectives
from the Igbeba Police Area Command
were said have swunged into action to
unravel the circumstances and motives
behind her gruesome attack