A self-acclaimed Eiye Confraternity leader, Tunde
Sani (39), recently arrested by detectives attached to the Anti-Cultism Unit,
Lagos State Police Command at Amukoko area of the state, has revealed how he
became the leader of the Eiye confraternity.
Sani said that he left Ilorin, Kwara State, for
Lagos to recruits and initiate more members into the cult group in Lagos.
It was gathered that the suspect, who had been on
the Police Wanted List for long, was eventually arrested on July 26, at
Ifelodun Street, Amukoko area of the state after much surveillance by a Chief Superintendent
of Police (CSP), Akaninyene Etuk and his Operational Officer, an Assistant
Superintendent of Police (ASP), Stephen Kuti and other members of the unit.
A police source said: “The suspect has been on our
Most Wanted Cultists List in the state. He was arrested at their hideout at
Amukoko when he was about to initiates more members into their confraternity.”
The police source stated that it was an achievement
for them, to have finally succeeded in arresting Sani. According to the
policeman, it was one of Sani’s members that gave the police clue on how to
hunt, locate and arrest him.
The source further said: “We recovered charms,
cutlass and other weapons when we went to search his house. We’re not relenting
on our efforts to arrest other members of the gang who are still at large.”
Sani, while speaking with our correspondent,
confirmed that he was a member of the Eiye group. He, however, insisted that he
denounced the group in 2005, which he said was four years after his initiation.
Sani added: “I was very young when I was initiated
into the group in 2001 by my cousin in Ilorin. On the fateful day I was
initiated, my cousin came to call me that I should accompany him to a party. It
was at the party that I was initiated into the cult group. I was threatened not
to tell anybody. After I was initiated, I still didn’t understand what I was
supposed to do as a member. But after a few years of being with them, I
travelled down to Lagos. When I got to Lagos, I didn’t know how Eiye members in
Lagos identified me. I was automatically made their leader. As a leader, my
role was to coordinate and bring more members. After I got married, I reduced
my participation with them. I didn’t want my wife and children to know that I
belonged to such a group. I was doing my bricklaying job peacefully. I was with
my friends at Ifelodun Street when police came to arrest me around.”
When one of the policemen ordered Sani to remove his
shirt, an eagle was tattooed on his back. The police alleged that the tattoo indicated
that Sani was a cult leader.
In another development, Afeez Muhammed and Fatai Ibrahim
were arrested on July 26, for allegedly peddling Indian hemps at the Amukoko
area of the state.
Muhammed said that it was as a result of his broken
leg that led him into the selling of Indian hemp.
His words: “In December last year, when youths from
Akpasa and market boys were fighting, I broke my leg. I broke it in the process
of trying to restore peace in the community. I fell down while trying to run
from being arrested by soldiers. It’s true; I was once a member of Eiye. But I
denounced my membership after I got married.
I’m only selling the Indian hemp to sustain my family. It was when the
policemen came to search my house that they found charms, cutlasses, axe and
two bags of Indian hemps.”
Ibrahim on his part said that he was learning
vulcanizing job, because his parents didn’t give him enough money. This made
him to start assisting Baba Moshood to sell Indian hemp.
He said: “I sell and make between N50, 000 to N20,
000 on the sale of Indian hemp every day. I would be given N1000 as my
commission. I was also arrested at Ifelodun Street. I regret my action. I don’t
want my parents to know that I sell drug.”
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