Police commence investigation on mysterious death of two kids inside soak away pit in Kwara

KWARA State police command has commenced an investigation to unravel how two kids got missing and died inside an uncompleted soak-away pit half filled with water in Gure community, Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara State.

The TribuneOnline gathered that residents of the community were, on Wednesday evening, enraged with hanger when they discovered corpses of the two kids, a girl and a boy.

The two kids were found dead in the pit, a location, said to be far from the homes of their respective parents, a day after they had been missing.

The TribuneOnline gathered that their discovery at the pit was suspicious to residents of the community as they said that the boy was still crawling, while the girl was only tottering.

Before locating the corpses in the pit, people were said to have combed many places in search of the kids whose disappearances happened in separate locations with one said to have taken place at home and the other at the market.

It was also gathered that parents of the two kids lived in the same community. However, one were citizens of the country the other was said to be foreigners.

Gure is one of the communities in the local government that are around the boundary between Nigeria and Benin Republic.

A source in the community informed that residents suspected that the kids were killed for a ritual purpose though they could not yet finger anyone as the perpetrator.

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He said the suspicion of ritual connection was widespread because another boy had earlier, recently, been found in the pit though rescued alive.

The source explained that the people, however, restrained themselves from a violent protest but only called in the police in the town to the situation.

Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer of the state command, Ajayi Okasanmi, gave the name of the female kid as Aisha Micheal and the male as Ibrahim Bernand.

Okasanmi said remains of the kids were recovered from the pit without any mark of violence on the lifeless bodies.

He, however, said police were still investigating to unravel how the kids got missing and died.