‘Herdsmen’ Kill Funke Olakunrin, Daughter Of Afenifere Chairman

Persons suspected to be herdsmen, have killed Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of Afenifere chairman, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, has said.

Yaahoo Journalist reports that the spokesman for Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, made this known in a terse message sent to The PUNCH on Friday.

Odumakin said late Mrs. Olakunrin, a 58-year-old woman, was heading to Ore Junction from Akure, Ondo State when she was attacked and shot by the herdsmen.

The statement quoted the spokesman for Afenifere, to have said: “We have confirmed the death of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin (58), daughter of our leader, Chief Fasoranti.

“Eyewitness accounts say she died of gunshots from Fulani herdsmen who shot her at Ore junction in Ondo State earlier today.

“She was coming from Akure when the armed Fulani herdsmen came from the bush to attack her and other vehicles.

“Her domestic staff in the car with her also sustained gunshots.

“This is one death too many and a clear we-can-take-it-no-more death,” the statement by issued by Odumakin on Friday said.

Meanwhile, Yaahoo Journalist understands that late Olakunrin is the second child of 94-year-old Fasoranti to die. The elder statesman had also lost a daughter, Bunmi, some years ago.