My Son Is A Cultist, Woman Admits

The police in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, have arrested Mrs. Biliq Omoyeni Olaoye, 47, suspected to be keeping a gun for her alleged cultist son, Ibrahim Lawal.

Denying the allegation, however, Mrs. Olaoye, who was in police custody as at the time of this report, said OPC members who clashed in around Ikorodu recently were merely envious of her son who she admitted was wayward.

“I know he is a cultist but I wasn’t hiding ammunition for him. It was a set up. I don’t know his whereabouts and I never asked him to run away, but what I know is that if he was the one that killed Tobi, he will surely die too,” she added.

Ibrahim, who resided in Ikorodu area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria is now on the run.

P.M.NEWS gathered from a police source that a locally made gun and five live cartridges which allegedly belonged to Olaoye’s 26-year old son, was recovered from her shop at motor park area in Ikorodu.

A source told P.M.NEWS that Ibrahim, an OND graduate of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State, is believed to belong to the ‘Eiye’ Confraternity.

The source added that Ibrahim had led some members of his group to fight some members of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Ikorodu Zone on 1 May, 2012 and that this led to the death of one of the members of the cult group whose name was given as Ajisegbede Oluwatobi.

Femi Folarin, one of the arrested members of  the confraternity, who spoke with our correspondent, said that he was the one that confessed to the police at Owotu Police Divisional Headquarters that Ibrahim always kept their ammunition with his mother.

“Ibrahim gave me the gun on Friday, 2 April, 2012, but I kept it at our hideout close to OPC Zone.  Someone, however, stole the gun and later returned it to Ibrahim, who threatened to kill me if I didn’t produce the gun or pay N25,000.

“I was later arrested by the police and was in their custody when our group clashed with OPC and I heard we lost one of our members,” Folarin confessed.

Folarin, an alleged son of the founder of  Christ Apostolic Church,  Agbara’gbase Adura, Ikorodu and an aluminium construction apprentice, confessed that he is aware that Ibrahim’s mother was the armourer of their confraternity.

The case has been transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Martins Street, Yaba, Lagos for further investigation.

—Ayodeji Dedeigbo