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Abiodun Nejo
Published 13 March 2021
The police have begun investigation into the shooting of I5-year-old girl, Omolayo Adaranijo while awaiting a commercial motorcycle with her mother, 45-year-old Omolayo Adaranijo.
The single mother on Friday narrated how a gunman shot her daughter beside her on a street in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Wednesday.
Adaranijo said the incident had left her in trauma and confined her daughter, a senior secondary school 3 pupil, to bed at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti.
The woman said, “We (my daughter and I) were at Basiri junction in Ado Ekiti around 7.56pm on that day. We were awaiting a commercial motorbike to take us to Ifesowapo, Better Life, where I live, when a man suddenly alighted from motorbike and opened fire on my daughter. He shot her four times. The man immediately mounted the waiting motorbike and fled the scene.