Segun Aina/
Ekiti State Commissioner for Women Affairs during Governor Kayode Fayemi’s first term, Mrs Funke Owoseeni, narrowly escaped being killed by suspected assassins who invaded her residence in Ijesa Isu yesterday night.
NewsmakersNG learnt that her husband, Paul Owoseeni, however lost five of his fingers to the assailants who attacked him with machetes for refusing to disclose his wife’s whereabouts.
Mrs Owoseeni, who has also served as the Caretaker Chairman of Ikole local government area and Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, narrated her ordeal to journalists in Ado Ekiti via telephone today.
She said the assassins stormed her house along Ikole road at about 8.30pm and turned off the generating set outside, theu, throwing the premises into darkness.
She said two students living with the family went outside to check the generator but were accosted by gunmen who demanded for where she was.
“When the light went off, we suspected that the generating set was still running outside and we asked those students living with us to go out and check what was happening.
“Few minutes later, we heard them saying please save us, save us and my husband who was not with torchlight rushed out to see what was happening. The impression we first heard was a case of electrocution. While my husband rushed out to save the situation, I tried to get my torchlight to be able to see clearly.
“Shortly, the voices changed and I started hearing thief, thief, thief but my husband was already in their midst with those children. But because I went with torchlight, I was able to see them and I had to rush back inside and hid somewhere.
“They brought my husband inside and started asking, where is your wife? We are here for her and not you. When he didn’t give them where I was, they stared macheting him with dangerous weapons and they did that until they chopped up his fingers and they fled when they saw that he had passed out,” she stated.
She said they first took her husband to General hospital where he was stabilised, before taking him to Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital for further treatment.
“From EKSUTH, we were referred to Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti and now we are in a private hospital in Abuja, where my husband is receiving treatment,” she further disclosed.
She described the attack as a politically motivated assassination attempt by those, whose identities she had already revealed to the police.
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