Lagos State Police Command have arrested a suspected cultist, Jamiu Rasheed, who was captured on CCTV hacking and shooting Akinola Ayegbusi, a rival cult member, at a restaurant in the Alapere area of Lagos.
In a press statement electronically signed and transmitted to the National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP, by Command Spokesman SP Benjamin Hundeyin, SP Benjamin Hundeyin stated that “Lagos State Police Command personnel identified a suspected cultist, Jamiu Rasheed, at the age aged 22, who was caught by CCTV on July 7, 2022 hacking and shooting dead an Akinola Ayegbusi, a rival cult member, at a restaurant in the Alapere area of Lagos state.
The statement said: “Investigations revealed that Jamiu has been a member of the Klansman Confraternity since 2017 and was implicated in the killing of two other rival cultists.
The investigation into the crime also led to the arrest of the group’s gunsmith, a 26-year-old Sheriff Module, who was found with two locally made pistols; and another cultist, Emmanuel Samson.”
Sheriff, who was also involved in the murder, confessed that it was carried out to avenge the death of their leader who was killed by the Eiye Brotherhood on November 23, 2021.
Efforts are being made to arrest other fleeing cultists.
Suspects will be charged upon completion of the investigation.
Meanwhile, Lagos State Police Commissioner, CP Abiodun Alabi, fdc, once again appeals to parents/guardians and traditional/religious/political leaders to urge their children/wards and the teeming youth population to stay away from cultism and other social vices.
