Monday, March 4, 2013

Killing of Damoche: another LASU undergraduate gunned down



*Police arrest over 70 suspected cultists
Juliana Francis
The Lagos State Police Command has revealed that another LASU undergraduate was gunned down on Sunday night, following the killing of upcoming star artist, Olaniyan Damilola, otherwise known as Damoche who was killed on Thursday by unknown cult members at the entrance of the Lagos State University (LASU).
The killing of Damoche on Thursday, had been attributed to cult clash between Black Axe and Buccaneers.
A police source revealed that  Damoche belonged to Buccaneer confraternity, who were the first to kill a student outside the school campus, said to belong to Black Axe. When Black Axe went on a reprisal attack, they gun down Damoche.
On Sunday night, another undergraduate, was killed. He had been identified simply as Kabiru.
It was further learnt that Kabiru was killed by suspected Buccaneer group as retaliation for Damoche’s death. Kabiru was killed at Abeokuta Street, Okokomaiko.
It was gathered that a team of policemen on Sunday, visited Beno hotel, where suspected members of cult were celebrating the killing of Damoche and had swooped on the youths, arresting over 70 of them, who were all dragged to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad(SARS), Ikeja, for screening and interrogation.
Police spokesperson, Ngozi Braide who would not state the numbers of suspects arrested in connection with the death of Damoche and ongoing violence in LASU campus, however maintained that some arrests had been made and more arrests are still going on.
She said: “ SARS raided one Beno Hotel, Isashi, Okokomaiko, where some cult group members were having a party and made some arrests.”

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