suspected cultists dragged a motorist out of a commercial bus and
buried him alive.
PUNCH reports that the yet-to-be-identified victim was on his way to
the Oyingbo area of the state.He was said to have been dragged out of
the bus at the Total bus stop in the Mushin end of the Ikorodu Road.
A witness, Jacob Amos, said the incident happened around 8pm on
Wednesday, adding that policemen from the Alakara Police Division were
alerted.
He said,
"The man was in the bus when he was dragged out at Total bus stop.
They brought him into Mushin and I immediately alerted the policemen
from Alakara.
"The police went to Adewusi Street, and searched the place for more
than one hour, but they did not find anything. They patrolled the
place and when they did not see anything, they left.
"Around 10pm when everybody had gone home, they brought the man to the
Railway Line and push him from head down into a filled canal. Only his
leg was sticking out."
The victim was said to have died soon afterwards.Our correspondent
learnt that policemen from Alakara later arrived on Thursday to remove
the corpse.
A witness, who did not identify himself, said the police ordered him
to pull out the corpse from the murky water.
Friends of the deceased from Market Street, Oyingbo, were said to have
shown up to identify him.
A resident lamented that the police in the area, were not doing enough
to arrest the unrest in Mushin, lamenting that there were saboteurs in
the force.
He said it was the second time in a week that people from the Oyingbo
area would be hounded and killed in Mushin, which could start a war
between the two communities.
He said,
"The police in this area have been compromised. When we called them
yesterday that someone had been captured around Oyewusi Street, an
informant of the cultists whom we suspect work with the police,
quickly alerted the guys and they left the place.
"They brought the victim to our side to make it look as if we are
responsible for his death. Their plan is to set the Oyingbo boys
against us and trigger a war."
Residents of the area alleged that the increased killing of suspected
cult members from Oyingbo was orchestrated by one Rilwan, aka Itakun.
Other men said to be in the group are White, Ese Chicago, Ina, Anarchy
and Riliwanu.
The source said Itakun had his family house in Oyingbo and left the
area due to persecution by some suspected cultists.
He said, "After he left, he started living in Mushin with a gang
member. Later, he decided to start paying back those he perceived as
the leaders of the gang in Oyingbo.
"Last week, he invited one Tunde Eleto to Mushin and the man was
stabbed and shot dead by his squad," he added.
However, another resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, denied
that anyone was killed in the community.
He said, "There is nothing like that. Nobody was killed on the Railway
Line or anywhere for that matter."
-Punch
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