6-year-old girl, killed by in-law for rituals, dumped into well

A six years old girl, Adijat Salawu has been allegedly killed for ritual purpose and dumped inside well by her mother’s brother-in-law in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

Adijat, a primary two pupil of AUD Primary School, Oke-Ila in Ado-Ekiti, was sent on an errand last Wednesday by her mother’s elder sister to go and collect her handset being charged in her husband’s room.

After about 30 minutes of waiting without her return, Adijat’s elder sister was sent to retrieve the same phone, but since then, the family began searching for her from around 4:30pm all to no avail till 3:00am before they slept off.
According to her father, Mr. Lasisi Salawu, who spoke to Daily Sun yesterday, her wife’s brother,( names withheld), was responsible for his daughter’s death.

Narrating the incident, Salawu said his brother-in-law must have killed Adijat for ritual because after they started searching for the girl and couldn’t see her, he was the one who called him on phone the following day, asking him to go and check her inside a well.

According to him, while searching for the girl, the suspect, who was said to be a driver, had collected N2, 000 from them for fuel and taken them reluctantly to a herbalist at Omu Ijebu who could reveal the killer to them.
At Omu Ijebu, the herbalist reportedly told them “the person behind the girl’s disappearance was an insider and he was with them, even taking care of the girl’s parent, but that he doesn’t want crisis in the family there and they should go and continue searching.”

He said when they heard that and returned home, they reported the incident at the Ewi of Ado-Ekiti’s palace and a chief was sent to follow them home and instruct people in that vicinity to lock their wells. They said this was because when those callous people do such wicked act, they do dump their victims in a well or bore hole around their house to create impression that the victim fell in a well.

Speaking further, the deceased father, who is in his 50s said the chief then locked the well at the back of their house with a padlock and left, but the following day, “Olajide just called him to inform him of how he can get the body of his daughter.” Mr. Salawu disclosed that when he asked him where he was calling from, he said he was not at home but outside.

They went there and found out that the padlock on the well had been forcefully removed and on opening the well they saw the corpse inside.