Cultists On Revenge Mission Slaughter Rival

Cult members on revenge mission have slaughtered a rival cult member at Ajelogo area of Ketu in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.

The three suspects arrested by  the police in connection with the incident were alleged to have slit the throat of their victim identified as Seyi.

P.M.NEWS learnt from police sources that the suspects identified simply as Stainless, 22, Joshua, 24, and Ninety, 24, were arrested by the police from Alapere Divisional Police Headquarters for killing the 27-year old Seyi who they claimed belonged to a rival cult group that had attacked their members in Ikorodu recently.

The deceased, an alleged marijuana seller and member of the Neo-Black Movement, popularly called Black Axe, lived close to St. Paul’s Comprehensive College, in the Araromi Quarters of Ajelogo, Alapere-Ketu.

A police source told P.M.NEWS  yesterday that the deceased also worked with the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Alapere-Ketu branch.

According to the source who pleaded anonymity, it was a six-man gang that carried out the gruesome murder of Seyi, but that only three of them have been arrested following an alarm raised by residents of the area where the incident occurred on Sunday.

It was learnt that after the police received a tip off, they moved in and arrested the three suspects who were still soaked in Seyi’s blood and were attempting to escape from the scene.

They were said to have been heavily drunk at the time of their arrest.

Stainless, Joshua and Ninety, who also sell marijuana in the area, were said to be members of  Eiye Confraternity, and had, according to a residents, killed the deceased just to establish the supremacy of their cult group.

In their alleged confessions to the police, P.M. NEWS learnt that they said they had to kill Seyi to avenge an earlier attack on the Eiye members by  Seyi’s group in Ikorodu.

A resident, who preferred to be anonymous, told P.M. NEWS that the suspects stormed Ajelogo at about 3a.m., raped Seyi’s wife and injured her nine-month old baby before killing him.

In a statement to the police, Sey’s wife said the assailants were six in number,  alleging that the suspects had earlier threatened to kill her husband because they believed he was an informant to their rival cult group.

A source at  Kosofe College, Ajelogo, said the cultists had always been a menace to the community because they always came into the school compound to smoke marijuana and constitute a nuisance.

Police officers at the Alapere Police Station told P.M.NEWS that the case has been transferred to the Lagos State Police Command Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

—Ayodeji Dedeigbo & Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni