No
fewer than six people were killed and scores injured after suspected cultists
unleashed terror on the Ajegunle area of Apapa and Ikorodu, Lagos State.
The
incidents happened between Tuesday October 4 and Thursday October 6, 2016. A
bloody fight broke out between suspected cultists and butchers in the
Alayabiagba area of Ajegunle, Apapa, Lagos after a butcher called Adewale Fakunle
was allegedly killed by suspected cultists last Tuesday at about 10:00 p.m. The
late Fakunle was returning home in his bus when he was allegedly attacked by
the cultists who were said to be licking their wounds after they were alegedly
humiliated by members of a rival gang.
The
suspects were said to have brutalised and robbed the late butcher of his phones
and other valuables. Sources said that Fakunle managed to get to his residence
on Baale Aiyetoro Street and narrated his ordeal to his friends and neighbours.
It was gathered that he, however, died on his way to a hospital. News of his
death triggered violence as members of the butchers association in the
community stormed the hideout of the cultists and killed one of them.
The
cultists again struck on Thursday, killing a butcher in the area. It was learnt
that the intervention of men of the Area ‘B’ Command afterwards brought the
situation under control. The situation has, however, caused tension in the
community as residents feared there might be reprisal attack soon. A resident
who spoke in confidence, said: ’’It was as if war was going on in this
neighbourhood when a group of butchers armed to the teeth engaged the cult boys
in a bloody fight following the killing of their member called Fakunle.
‘’We
had to stay indoors till the arrival of policemen from a nearby Area Command
who restored normalcy a few hours later. However, the butchers too succeeded in
killing one of the cult boys while several others were wounded during the
clash.’’ A similar attack carried out by suspected cultists in the Lambo
Lasunwon area of First Gate, Ikorodu left three people dead, including a final
year student of Mass Communication in Lagos State Polytechnic (Laspotech) and
one of the school’s security guard,Adedokun Olatunji. A source told our
correspondent that the unnamed security guard who was at the scene in mufti was
shot in error by the cultists. The late student, Babatunde Ogundeji, was on his
way home after
Source:The Nation
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