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Barely a month after the Lagos State Police Command formed
a joint taskforce in Ikorodu in order to check the escalating ritual killings
orchestrated by the dreaded Badoo group, the members, yesterday, resurfaced,
killing a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Adejare and their two daughters.
The killing occurred at Oke Ota, Ibeshe Ikorodu. The
ugly incident happened over the night on July 29. The corpses were discovered yesterday,
July 30, 2017
According to a resident in the area where the family
was murdered, the incident was not discovered until yesterday afternoon.
Although it was a family of five, only one child
survived and she is presently battling to stay alive at the Ikorodu General
Hospital. The children are between ages five and one. Two of them were
identified as Siyin and Ajoke.
The resident, simply identified as Israel, said: “The
signature of the murder of the family is the hallmark of the Badoo killing
group. They killed the father of the house, his wife and daughters. Nobody knew
what had happened until some church members went to their house, to find out
why they didn’t come to church. When the door was forced open, there was blood
everywhere.”
The killers were alleged to have cut the window net
of the family’s apartment in order to gain entry. The victims’ heads were
alleged to have been smashed with a stone and the stone left behind.
Another resident said: “The family is members of The
Chosen Generation Family Church in Oke Ota. They had a programme in their
church on Sunday. The members decided to check on them because they did not
come to the church. They found the whole family lying in a pool of blood and
raised the alarm. One of the three children was still breathing. He was rushed
to a hospital. There are burglar-proof bars on the windows in the house, except
at the kitchen section. Unfortunately, that was where they exploited. They tore
the net and entered their rooms.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer
(PPRO), Olarinde Famous-Cole said that the incident was reported in the early
hours of yesterday, after police operatives responded to a distress call.
He said: “Our men mobilized to the scene, where the
operatives found it extremely difficult to locate the house; it was situated in
a thick forest where it impossible for anybody to identify a dwelling house. Our
men went on foot and got to the house. It was just a room and parlour; with one
open window and no visible form of security. It was there that a family of five
was attacked. Three died on the spot, one died while receiving treatment at the
hospital and the last member is alive and responding to treatment.”
According to Famous-Cole, “as investigation
commenced, no visible trace of violence or clues linked to the cultist group
was found. No stone was found at the scene. A case of murder is being
investigated by police detectives, which doesn't fit in the modus operandi of
the cult group. The Lagos State Police Command is using this opportunity to
call on Community Development Associations chairmen and traditional rulers who
know persons staying in isolated areas, which are no longer safe to come and
report/identify with the police in order to stop people from packing into obscure
areas without proper social structures.”
He urged members of the public to come forward with
useful information to aid the police, and not resort to jungle justice. The
information might lead to arrest or make police to place of those fingered on
police watch list, said Famous-Cole.
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