SUSPECTED CULTIST IN POLICE CUSTODY ---
FOLLOWING DEADLY CLASH AT MILE 12
STORY BY PATIENCE OGBO
Ten members of the Bukanner cult are in the police custody for allegedly disturbing public peace at Mile 12 area of Lagos state.
The cultists are being interrogated by officers of the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) Ikeja following their arrest on December 2nd.
It was gathered that the suspects were engaged in a melee with another cult group called Eiye confraternity at the Mile 12 area, where the two groups fought each other with dangerous weapons .
In order to nip the crisis,the police officers from the Ketu Police station were informed of the deadly clash and they swooped on the cultists arresting ten of them. The suspects were transferred to SARS for though investigations on December 3rd
A police source said the police recovered seven cutlasses and a locally made gun from the suspects.
The suspects include, Adewale Adeboye, Agunbiade Lateeef, Ekun Ganiu, Ayebusiwa Tosin, Joseph Olumuyiwa, Seun Balogun, Ibrahim Ahmed, Badejo Niyi, Korede Kazeem, and Yusuf Olatunji.
The suspects however denied the allegation that they were causing mayheem and using guns to terrorise the public;they blame the Eiye cult for thier ordeal.
Tosin Ayebusiwa, said " on that Friday , I was relaxing in my shop and all of a sudden I saw some boys fully armed and they came to me asking me about somebody , I told them that I do not know anything about the person, so that was how I asked them who thy are and they said they are Eiye guys and they started cursing and threatening me to produce that guy,
before I could say anything, they swooped on me and started attacking me they scattered my house and my shop so that was how the trouble started it was Eiye that started it and i called my elder brother to call the police and inform them of the eiye boys ,other members of my Bukanners cult heard that I was being attacked that was how they came to rescue me, it was in the process that they were arrested by the police the Eiye boys brought so this is a set up plan; "Tosin said.
Another member of the group, Ekun Ganiyu 27, a graduate of Accountancy from the Igbenedion University Okada said they are Innocent " I am a Bukanner and all of us are , when we heard that Tosin was being attacked by the Eiye boys, we came to his aid , but he has been surrounded by the Eiye boys, the police came and rounded us up saying that we are causing trouble whereas it is a set up by the Eiye and the police"Ekun said.
Another member of the Bukanner, Ibrahim Ahmed call on the commissioner of police in the state , Yakubu Alkali to investigate the case thoroughly,
" we are being alleged to have clashed with Eiye boys but non of them is in the police custody, we were set up and the commissioner of police should temper judgment with mercy as such a thing will never happen again, we are not armed robbers and the gun the police found is not ours, it was the Eiye boys that brought the guns, we are not thieves , or armed robbers as being alleged so we call on the Commissioner of police to investigate this case thoroughly:"
Tosin denied that he started the clash,
" I am not the one that cause this fight, in short I am a victim here because it was the Eiye boys that came to my house to attack me, they scattered my house and beat me up, as a law abiding citizen, I called the police , if we knew that the police were coming, there is no how we would have carried gun and wait for them to arrest us with guns,so we are not thieves or armed robbers as being alleged , we are innocent in this matter"
BY PATIENCE OGBO
Ten members of the Bukanner cult are in the police custody for allegedly disturbing public peace at Mile 12 area of Lagos state.
The cultists are being interrogated by officers of the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) Ikeja following their arrest on December 2nd.
It was gathered that the suspects were engaged in a melee with another cult group called Eiye confraternity at the Mile 12 area, where the two groups fought each other with dangerous weapons .
In order to nip the crisis,the police officers from the Ketu Police station were informed of the deadly clash and they swooped on the cultists arresting ten of them. The suspects were transferred to SARS for though investigations on December 3rd
A police source said the police recovered seven cutlasses and a locally made gun from the suspects.
The suspects include, Adewale Adeboye, Agunbiade Lateeef, Ekun Ganiu, Ayebusiwa Tosin, Joseph Olumuyiwa, Seun Balogun, Ibrahim Ahmed, Badejo Niyi, Korede Kazeem, and Yusuf Olatunji.
The suspects however denied the allegation that they were causing mayheem and using guns to terrorise the public;they blame the Eiye cult for thier ordeal.
Tosin Ayebusiwa, said " on that Friday , I was relaxing in my shop and all of a sudden I saw some boys fully armed and they came to me asking me about somebody , I told them that I do not know anything about the person, so that was how I asked them who thy are and they said they are Eiye guys and they started cursing and threatening me to produce that guy,
before I could say anything, they swooped on me and started attacking me they scattered my house and my shop so that was how the trouble started it was Eiye that started it and i called my elder brother to call the police and inform them of the eiye boys ,other members of my Bukanners cult heard that I was being attacked that was how they came to rescue me, it was in the process that they were arrested by the police the Eiye boys brought so this is a set up plan; "Tosin said.
Another member of the group, Ekun Ganiyu 27, a graduate of Accountancy from the Igbenedion University Okada said they are Innocent " I am a Bukanner and all of us are , when we heard that Tosin was being attacked by the Eiye boys, we came to his aid , but he has been surrounded by the Eiye boys, the police came and rounded us up saying that we are causing trouble whereas it is a set up by the Eiye and the police"Ekun said.
Another member of the Bukanner, Ibrahim Ahmed call on the commissioner of police in the state , Yakubu Alkali to investigate the case thoroughly,
" we are being alleged to have clashed with Eiye boys but non of them is in the police custody, we were set up and the commissioner of police should temper judgment with mercy as such a thing will never happen again, we are not armed robbers and the gun the police found is not ours, it was the Eiye boys that brought the guns, we are not thieves , or armed robbers as being alleged so we call on the Commissioner of police to investigate this case thoroughly:"
Tosin denied that he started the clash,
" I am not the one that cause this fight, in short I am a victim here because it was the Eiye boys that came to my house to attack me, they scattered my house and beat me up, as a law abiding citizen, I called the police , if we knew that the police were coming, there is no how we would have carried gun and wait for them to arrest us with guns,so we are not thieves or armed robbers as being alleged , we are innocent in this matter"
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