BY GBENGA ARIYIBI
ADO-EKITI — THE Police have recovered the body of the seven-year-old, Olamide Ayeni, who was drowned in the flood caused by Sunday night’s downpour in Ado Ekiti.

The boy was said to have been sent on an errand with his elder sister, Faith.He missed his steps and fell into a heavily flooded drain while returning home in the rain that lasted for several hours.

The Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, Mr Victor Babayemi, said his body was recovered at Housing Estate, along Afao Ekiti road in the state capital.

Babayemi said the father of the boy, Mr Matthew Ayeni, had identified the corpse and it had been released to him for burial.

Vanguard gathered  that the boy’s corpse was found in a ditch behind the Police Station at Oke Ila.