‘Help! Cultists who killed my mother are after me’

A middle-aged woman, Tessy Igbinadolor, has in Osogbo pleaded with security agencies to protect her from suspected cultists, which she said are trailing her, claiming that the assailants had earlier killed her mother and brother-in-law.

Igbinadolor, who spoke to newsmen in the premises of Press Centre of the NUJ, Iwo road, Osogbo, also pleaded with security agents to assist her in finding her sister, Igbinadolor Amen nee Eghomwanre, whom she claimed got missing in Otobo, Delta State last year.

Igbinadolor said two members of her family, Uyi Igbinewke, her brother-inlaw, and her mother, Mrs. Victoria Egbhomwanre, were murdered in Augustn 2015 and January this year respectively by suspected cultists.

According to her, Amen was resident in Otobo, Ugheli, Delta State and used to work with Fexam Hotel located within Otobo metropolis before her sudden disappearance.

Before she got missing, the senior Igbinadolor said a cult group in the town had threatened to kill her and further explained that “on the 14th of April 2015, at number 20b Otobo, Ugheli street, some cultists, as we were told, murdered one Mr. Eugene Ighoesuvwo, and my sister, Amen, saw them while perpetrating the act.

“I think they feared Amen might expose them.

They descended on her but she narrowly escaped being lynched. Amen and the deceased used to work with Fexam Hotel located at number 4, Emosivewe in Ugheli and the late Eugene was also living near our house before he met his death.”

When asked how she got to Osun State and if the matter had been reported to police, Igbinadolor said some good spirited people gave her money to relocate out of Delta, adding thatb the matter was reported to Delta State Police Command.

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