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In search of the culprits of the reported case of the mysterious death of five girls of same father in Ado-Ekiti, three women may be quizzed by the police to say all they know about how the juveniles were locked in their father’s car booth and suffocated.
Speaking with the father of the deceased kids, Mutiu Nureni, Daily Sun gathered that the three women (names withheld), who had shops in a section of Ado-Ekiti where Mutiu, the father of the five kids had a shop in which he sells cloths, may be arrested to help the police in their investigations.

The women were said to have engaged Mutiu, the father of the deceased in a fight sometime ago during which he taunted them with the death of one of their brothers who died recently.
According to Mutiu, he later dragged the women before the Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe, but was asked to apologize to them over the utterance.

The crux of their dispute, according to Mutiu, was that he rented a parcel of land on which he built his shop with an agreement that he was going to spend seven years on the land before transferring the shop to the land owners.
Mutiu, who is a butcher, explained that he got the shop just to have a place to rest after the day’s job at the butchery.

Mutiu said what still beat his imagination over the dispute was that he only sells cloths in the shop, while the other women trade in local dry gin (paraga).
Meanwhile, the bereaved family, on the advice of the local council, has reported the incident to the Ado-Ekiti monarch because the mothers of the children hail from the town.
Speaking with some of the sympathizers at the home of the bereaved, one Mrs Taiwo described the incident as work of servants of Satan.

She described all the victims as lovable and healthy kids, wondering why anyone could be so wicked to the point of suffocating kids in the booth of a car.
The state Police Commissioner, Chris Ola, described the incident as an unusual occurrence, disclosing that the police detectives had interrogated the only survivor of the incident, Rashidat.
“We are talking to the only surviving daughter, who seems to be leading us aright, giving us the clue with her statement so far.

“We have not made any arrest so far, we are just trying to unravel the circumstances. They were children and we don’t want to believe that their action might have led to it. It’s a very unfortunate situation and we will not like to jump into conclusion. We don’t want to work on speculations.”
The commissioner also expressed the hope in of unmasking the culprits after receiving the doctor’s report on the deaths, adding that a post mortem would be carried out on the victims.

“I also got a report from the Chief Medical Director of the Ado-Ekiti Teaching Hospital, who informed me on the unusual. There is going to be a postmortem report on that. What we’ve got from the surviving child is now what we are working on,” the commissioner concluded.
The commissioner, however, urged all parents to keep close watch on their children, especially, juvenile ones.

He said if there had been an adult at home with the victims, such an incident would not have happened.
The family of Nureni was visited with cruelty last Saturday when two unidentified men moved into the family home after the parents had gone out for the day’s business and locked up six children into the father’s Mercedes Benz 190 car booth.

The incident lead to the death of Simbiat, Delilat, Kafayat, Khadijat and Safiyat.
The sixth girl, Rashidat survived death when their parents eventually found that they were locked up in the car booth and forced it open.