Cult Members Kill Police Sergeant, as They Protest The Death of a Member at Ogba in Lagos
Some alleged cult members have killed a police officer while on duty at College Road, Ifako Ijaiye, Ogba, Lagos. The police officer was killed during an attack by hoodlums on a police patrol team stationed at a black spot in the location.
According to reports, some angry youths were protesting the death of one Shina, aka Ishan, who was reportedly injured during a police raid on Oshunkeye Street in Idiagbon community, but later died in an undisclosed hospital.
We gathered that last Wednesday, some policemen went to raid
Idiagbon Street and many people fled to evade arrest. While the raid was ongoing, Ishan fell
into a gutter and hit his head on the concrete slab. He was rushed to a
hospital and put on oxygen but died yesterday morning.
The angry youths reportedly took the corpse to the Area G Police Command headquarters at Ogba in an ambulance and left the body there. They later went back to the community and on sighting some policemen at Haruna bus stop attacked them with cutlasses and sticks.
The policemen were said to have ran for their lives in the process, however their patrol
van was vandalized and the hoodlums followed them in a hot chase, till they caught up with the deceased officer on Emmanuel Olorunfemi Street and beat him to death.
Some eye-witness said the hoodlums used
sticks to hit the police officer on the head, seized his gun from him and used it to kill him, then left the gun on his
corpse.
This incident took place yesterday, Wednesday at around 11am.
According to a report on Punch;
The Balogun of Idiagbon, James Shomuyiwa, confirmed that policemen raided the street, adding that during the operation, a youth was injured.
He said after the victim died on Wednesday, his friends vowed to avenge him.
He said, “There are some Aiye and Eye cult members in this community and there has been a supremacy fight between them for some time. They have constituted themselves into a nuisance and they even have a base called Aso Rock. That place has been turned to a den. We cannot sleep with our two eyes closed. Anytime they clash, we lose our peace.
“Recently, an Alfa, who claimed to be a landlord, came to my place to complain that his son was attacked by some Eye cult members because the boy refused to join them.
“However, when the Eye cult members heard that they came to my place, they besieged my house in large numbers and said the boy was a member of the Aiye cult. The two parties later converged on my house and I confronted the Alfa and his son with the claim of the Eye cult.
“At that meeting, I told the two groups to stop their illegal activities in my domain and I threatened to bring in the police if they did not heed the warning. I was later told that most of the cult members were not indigenes of Idiagbon; they came from another community called Obawole.
“For about two weeks now, the police had been conducting raids on the area.
“This morning (Wednesday), they came to my house, saying one of them had just died and they would retaliate. They said they were going to take the corpse to Area G and that the police should eat the corpse.”
The state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti, confirmed the incident.
He identified the deceased as Sergeant Esiabor Collins.
He said, “Today, Wednesday, August 29, 2018, around 11am, on College Road, Ifako Ijaiye, Ogba, Lagos, a police patrol team stationed at a black spot was attacked.
“In the process, Sergeant Esiabor Collins, with service number 260326, was attacked and killed. Also, the patrol vehicle was vandalized.
“Preliminary investigation into the incident revealed that the mob, mainly youths, had earlier that morning gone to Area G Command, Ogba.
“The Area Commander spoke to them, promising to investigate their grievances, which bordered on the death of a youth who allegedly died today (Wednesday), two weeks after an alleged encounter with some policemen.
“At this juncture, it must be clearly stated that the police authorities in the state are unaware of any encounter with the deceased as no formal complaint was received to that effect.”
Oti said the state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, was saddened by the incident, adding that the command would bring the culprits to book.
He said five suspects, who were arrested, had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba, to face prosecution for murder.
“The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Edgal Imohimi, warns that policemen may be forced to use their firearms to defend themselves to avoid being killed by a mob in the protection of government assets,” he added.
We further gathered that several people in the community have been arrested by police, some of those arrested claim to be innocent residents.
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