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Suspected members of the Eiye Confraternity have stabbed a
security guard to death. He was attached to Aladelola Street Ketu, in Ikosi Isheri Local Council
Development Area of Lagos State.
The security guard, identified as
Chief Idowu Akasoro, 53, was killed and his corpse dumped in a canal by the
cult members.
When his corpse was brought out from the canal, his two hands
were tied behind his back. He had knife inflicted stabs on his neck.
Akasoro was killed along with his subdominant
Wasiu Oyesanya, 20. They were both stabbed to death on Saturday. Akasoro
was the leader of all the vigilante groups in the Ikosi Isheri Local Council
Development Area.
The son of Akasoro, Idowu Musa said:
“We were still sleeping when one of my father’s boys came and told us that Wasiu
had been killed by the cult group. Everybody rushed out. When we were
searching for the corpse of the late Wasiu, somebody came and said my Dad had
also been killed. We followed the person who brought the news to Maskara
Street, while the corpse of my father was later found inside a canal.
“When his corpse was brought out
from the canal, we were shocked to see that his two hands were tied behind back
before. He was stabbed on the neck and he was later dumped inside the canal.”
Musa added that the matter was
reported at ‘Area H’ Police Command, Ogudu. The two corpses were taken away and
deposited at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).
“I’m appealing to Lagos State Commissioner
of Police to release the two bodies for us to bury because they were Muslims.”
It was also gathered that one of the
cultists, identified as Drogba, was nabbed when he was about to escape from
area. He was handed over to the police.
When our correspondent visited the
street, about seven vehicles were parked on the road. The vehicles’ windscreen had
been were vandalised by youths protesting the murder of the two men.
A resident who refused to
mention his name, said: “We are saddened with the death of the security guards.
We employed them to provide security for us when we were faced with the threat of
armed robbers and cult members. We’ve written to the police on the activities
of these boys in our area, yet they were not forthcoming. We decided to engage
the service of the vigilante men. Now, two of them had been killed. Who will
now protect us? Even we the landlords
knew that the work of the security guards is dangerous. When we are sleeping,
they would be outside, providing security for us. We are working
with the police to arrest their killers.”
Other residents alleged that the men
were slain by Eiye cult group because
they had been frustrating their operations in the area.
A member of the vigilante group in
the area who preferred to remain anonymous said: “The cult group had threatened
to deal with us since we started guarding the area. They said we were
disturbing their activities in Ketu and its environs. These cult boys are mostly
the children of the landlords. I and my late colleagues were employed by the
Landlord Association of Aladelola Street to guard their street when armed
robbers and the cult groups became unbearable for the residents.”
The security guard said: “We knew what
to do, but we didn’t want to take laws into our hands. That was why we are
calm. If anything went wrong now, the blame will shift to us.”
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