An Ilorin secret cult has suffered a huge blow as three of its members are alleged to have been killed and 18 more arrested.
The victims who were allegedly members of the Eiye Confraternity died
after a raid of their hideout by police officers and vigilante members
while the initiation ceremony of new members into the cult was ongoing.
According to reports,
the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Olufemi Fabode, said the
initial information the police gathered was that armed robbers were, on
Saturday night, hiding in a bush behind NASFAT village along Airport
Road in Ilorin.
Fabode said “This prompted various vigilance groups in the
communities around the place to mount surveillance on the area
particularly on all roads leading to the bush and waited until the early
hours of Sunday when the Eiye Confraternity began the initiation.
“On noticing that security personnel had laid ambush for them, they
ran into the waiting hands of the people who mistook them for armed
robbers and opened fire on them”.
The PPRO said in the ensued exchange of gun fires, three of the cult
members fell and they were about to be set ablaze before intervention by
the police.
He said four others also got critically injured while 18 of them were arrested.
Fabode said some of the cult members came from Lagos, Osun and Oyo states, promising that more of them would be arrested soon.
He said the cult members ran into various directions when they heard
that some of their colleagues had been arrested by the police.
The bodies of those killed were, however, deposited at the University
of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) mortuary, while those injured were
taken to another hospital for treatment.
Fabode called for useful information to the police with a view to make the state crime-free.
He urged parents to monitor the movement of their wards.
The police spokesman said: “Some of those arrested have disclosed
that they were yet to gain admission to higher institutions neither did
their parents know their whereabouts. If this could happen, then they
would graduate to become kingpin of the group.”
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