No fewer than five people have been
killed in a supremacy fight between suspected members of the Eiye and
Aiye cults in the Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State.
Residents, who spoke to PUNCH Metro
during visits to scenes of the attacks, identified the victims as
Oladipupo Bamitogba, Yosi, Ibrahim Abiodun, Sesan and Rasak Busari, aka Aro.
Some residents claimed that two of the
victims, Bamitogba and Yosi, were not cultists, adding that they were
only victims of circumstances.
A witness, Lateef Abdullahi, said
Bamitogba, an accountant, was shot and cut with machetes around
Adaraloye area of Ikorodu on Monday, May 6, 2019.
He explained that the victim died after
running out of oxygen when the ambulance conveying him to the Lagos
University Teaching Hospital, ran into gridlock.
Another witness, Saliu Balogun, said
Yosi was killed when the hoodlums who stormed the Isele area around 9pm
last Sunday missed their target.
He said, “Around 9.30pm, the cult
members came to kill one of their opponents. When they got to the area,
they opened fire on the target. The target escaped, but bullets hit Yosi
and another man. They ran after the target. When they could not get
him, they returned to where Yosi was lying down and stabbed him. He died
at the Ikorodu General Hospital, but the other victim survived.”
The third victim, Abiodun, was reportedly killed in broad daylight.
A resident, Lola Sunday, said the hoodlums first opened fire on Abiodun before attacking him with machetes.
Sunday said, “We ran inside immediately
they started shooting at him; we peeped through a hole in the gate and
saw two guys with an axe and a gun. After killing him, they took a
snapshot of his corpse and left. It was when the police came that
Ibrahim (Abiodun) was identified as a cult member.”
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