According to The Punch, controversy continues to trail the death of Osayande Ekhator, read here
in Benin, the Edo State Police Command has said it would conduct an
autopsy on the deceased to ascertain the true cause of his death.
The 45-year-old man reportedly died last
Monday during a spiritual exercise at Hope Ministry, also known as Holy
Ghost Deliverance Centre, a church located at Uselu quartres, Egor
Local Government Area of the state.
While
some of the residents in the area suspected that he may have died as a
result of hitting his head on a hard object due to the blood stain
found on his head, his sister believed that his late brother was “beaten
to death,” as his legs and hands had been tied up.
The father of the victim, Pa Arase
Ekhator, said family was yet to come to terms with the sudden death of
their son, maintaining that the late Osayande had opted for the exercise
in his sane mind.
The resident pastor of the church, Isoken
Ekundaye, however, denied the allegations, insisting that, “We don’t
kill here. We don’t beat here. If they bring insane people, we heal.”
But the Police Public Relations Officer,
DSP Stephen Onwochei, explained that representatives of the family of
the deceased and the church would be invited to witness the post-mortem
in order to ensure fairness to all parties in the case.
He also said two other persons, in
addition to the pastor in charge of the church, were in police custody
to aid the command in the investigation.
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