A few hours after a Chinese Contractor was abducted in Ekiti State, a Cleric, Reverend Johnson Oladimeji has been shot dead by unknown gunmen, who killed him along Igbara-Odo-Ikere-Ekiti road in Ikere local government area.
It was gathered that the Cleric, who was a presiding pastor of Solution Baptist Church Ikere-Ekiti was killed on the highway by suspected kidnappers when he was returning to Ikere-Ekiti after an official assignment in neighbouring Osun state.
A source revealed that the man was returning from Osun state on Thursday and decided to make use of the Igbara-Odo route to Ikere-Ekiti when he was ambushed and shot dead by gunmen in the evening.
Reverend Oladimeji was reportedly found dead in his car along the road close to the University of Education and Technology in Ikere-Ekiti.
The source further explained that the incident was reported at the Igbara-Odo police station before his corpse was evacuated to the morgue.
Confirming the killing, the president of Ekiti Baptist church, Reverend Adeyinka Aribasoye said the deceased had travelled to see his mother at Ipetu Ijesa in Osun state and was returning from the journey when the incident occurred.
The incident comes few days after gunmen suspected to be kidnappers abducted a reverend father, Matthew Dajo, of the St Anthony Catholic Church, in Yangoji village, Kwali area council in Abuja.
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