Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad
(RRS), Lagos State Police Command, have arrested 18 suspected cultists for
allegedly killing eight people.
It was gathered that the 18 suspects
were members of two rival cult groups whose constant violence in Ogudu and
Ojota area resulted in the killing of the eight victims.
The suspects, comprising 12 members of
Aiye Confraternity and six members of Eiye confraternity were picked up by the
Decoy Team of the RRS in their hideouts in different parts of Lagos and Akwa
Ibom states. The suspects were presented to journalists today at the Police
Command, Ikeja, by the state’s Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu.
The gangs, whose violent activities dates
back to January, 2019, when an Aiye cult leader, Solomon Cosmos, popularly
known as, ‘Solomon Terror,’ elder brother of Ikenna Cosmos, was killed by some
Eiye members in the Ogudu Ojota area of
the metropolis in the presence of his son.
Ikenna Cosmos, in commemorating the
killing of his brother in January 9, 2020, allegedly concluded arrangements to
unleash violence on the perceived killers of his brother. But detectives from
the Ogudu Police Station thwarted the ploy after they got wind of the plan.
However, in a new twist, the gang
commenced violence in January, which claimed the lives of eight people, identified
as Sule aka Minister, Terror, Pamilerin and his friend, name yet unknown.
Others are Olaolu Abiodun, Daniel, Babatunde Adebayo and Dauda Akinode. They
were all killed in January 2020.
Odumosu, while attempting to rein in the
escalating violence, ordered the Decoy Team of RRS to arrest all the suspects.
RRS arrested 12 Aiye, six Eiye and one Bucaneer members.
Some of the suspects were with bullet
wounds on their bodies.
Odumosu said: “We’re prepared to nip in
the bud violence of all kinds in the state particularly that resulting from
cult groups.”
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