Reports say some police officers attached to the Ondo State Police Command have allegedly beaten a 50-year-old widow to death in the state. The widow, Aderonke Eze, was the owner of a ‘mini beer parlor joint’ close to her house in Akure, Ondo State and was killed by unrepentant policemen by a gun butt, Sahara Reporters reports. The corpse of the deceased, who resided at No. 1, Akinyemi Street, off Ijoka road, Sijuwade close in Akure, was dumped at the general hospital’s morgue in Akure by the police officers numbering about seven. 
Residents and sympathizers in the community reportedly took to the streets of the neighborhood of ‘Sijuwade Quarters’ after the incident, to protest the killing of the 50-year-old woman. “They will just enter the street and start arresting our young boys. Many of them would be [accused] of being in possession of Indian hemp. Before you know it, they would be asking us to pay N10,000 before we could bail them. “This is not the first nor second time, but I do hope it would be their last time because the whole world must here this sad news,” a resident who pleaded anonymity fumed. Denying the reports, the state police claimed that the late woman was harboring young men who deal and smoke marijuana, and according to their spokesperson, Oluwole Ogodo, who spoke with Sahara Reporters via a phone call, they “didn’t kill the woman” but were trying to carry out the arrest of a notorious marijuana dealer on the street.
