Posted on: 06:21 Fri, 08 Jul 2016



No fewer than 11 persons have been
killed by suspected cult members in
Igode and Fakale communities in the
Sagamu Local Government Area of
Ogun State.

Four persons were also injured
while houses and cars were
vandalised in the attack that lasted
for about 10 hours.

According to PUNCH Metro ,the
hoodlums, said to be Aye
Confraternity members, had gone
on the rampage at about 11am on
Wednesday to commemorate their
anniversary tagged 7/7.

The grand finale of the anniversary
was reportedly held on Thursday,
July 7, 2016 at Emuren, a
neighbouring community.

It was gathered that the hoodlums,
numbering about 25 on
motorcycles, came from Emuren,
wielding guns and cutlasses.

Their targets were said to be
members of the Eiye Confraternity,
a rival cult.The bandits, who
reportedly wore masks, shot dead
three welders at a junction
bordering Emuren and Igode.

The welders were said to be
returning from a work site on a
motorcycle.

The rampaging miscreants
reportedly proceeded to the Fakale
community, where they opened fire
on a crowd watching a football
match in a viewing centre, killing
seven persons.

It was learnt that one of the
deceased, identified simply as Dare,
was a member of the Oodua
People’s Congress.

Others were identified as Ibukun,
Ismaila, Sunday, and a steel rod
seller, Dare Olakanmi.

Three of them were said to have
been buried.



However, the police had yet to
remove the remains of the three
welders as of 12pm on Thursday.
Four others, who were injured,
were said to have been taken to a
hospital in Sagamu.

The Coordinator of the OPC in the
community, Wole Oladunjo, said,
“The fight was between Eiye and
Aye confraternities. The Aye
members are based in Emuren. The
OPC had nothing to do with the
fight. But surprisingly, they (Aye
members) came here on
Wednesday and started shooting
sporadically. They killed seven
persons in a viewing centre.

“One of the deceased was our
member. The others killed were not
Eiye members. They were hard
working youths. Four persons are
still in the hospital receiving
treatment. The police picked four
corpses and three of them have
been buried.

“The policemen, who came that
evening, were blaring their sirens
from afar and this gave those boys
the chance to escape.”

An OPC member, who identified
himself as Ajibola Defence, told
PUNCH Metro that the hoodlums
inscribed 7/7 on those killed and
on a refrigerator they destroyed
inside a shop.

He said:-

“We learnt the Aye members are
celebrating their anniversary this
month. They started on July 1 and
today (Thursday) is the last day.

Whenever they celebrate the
anniversary, they kill. They wrote
7/7 on the heads of the persons
they killed.”

The Secretary of the OPC in the
community, Idris Lawal, vowed
that his members would avenge the
killings, adding that the victims
were innocent residents.

The Ogun State Police Public
Relations Officer, SP Muyiwa
Adejobi, confirmed the killings,
saying that the cultists had gone to
attack Eiye cult members at Fakale.