The
Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday paraded a self-confessed leader of the
Eiye Confraternity, Ibrahim Balogun, aka Small Jpron, for allegedly
killing five persons during different cult wars.
It was learnt that
29-year-old Small Jpron was arrested on
Saturday by detectives attached to the Alade Police Division on Apata Street in
the Somolu area of the state.
It
was gathered that Small Jpron was
arrested after some suspected cultists attacked the area on Saturday and the
suspect came out with his boys for a reprisal.
Ir
was gathered that Small Jpron allegedly
organised a gang which set a house ablaze in January 2016 on Oshinfolarin
Street, Bariga, during which a 65-year-old woman, Adejoke Adefuye, was burnt to
death.
A
police source said that Small Jpron had been
declared wanted for five murder cases in the Somolu and Bariga areas in 2016.
Speaking
while being paraded at the command headquarters, Ikeja, on Wednesday, the
suspect said he joined the cult to avenge the murder of his friend in 2009 by
suspected Aye Confraternity members.
He
said, “I am an Eiye cult leader. I joined the cult in 2009. The reason for my
joining was to avenge the death of a close friend, Sunday Folorunsho, aka Small Biscuits.
“It
was the Aye cult members who killed him. So, the Eiye faction approached me and
said I should join them and they would help me fish out the people who killed
my friend. I had a lot of boys working for me. I have killed three persons
among whom were Femi Wiper and Lekan
Akon.
“I
cut them with knives. I shot some other victims. They were killed in the Somolu
and Bariga areas. It was in the evening that Femi Wiper was
killed. We were going out for a carnival during the Easter period on Alade
Street in the Somolu area when a fight broke out. He was the one who first
pointed a gun at me and my boys hacked him to death.”
The
state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said Small
Jpron had been declared wanted by the police for multiple cases of
murder.
He
added that the suspect was an ex-convict.
He
said, “Earlier this year, there were major cult clashes, where criminal
elements in the Somolu and Bariga areas engaged one another in a war of
supremacy culminating in the deaths of some persons.
“The
gang, led by Small Jpron, also set ablaze a
house in the Pedro area in which an elderly woman was burnt to death. The
suspect was the one who led the cult gang war. He is a known criminal in the
Somolu area.
“He
has multiple cases of murder and armed robbery which he has confessed to.
Through him, we will look for other members of the gang who turned Pedro and
Somolu areas into theatres of war.”
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