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But at about 3am, the unthinkable happened. According to the deceased’s first son, Kefas, he heard his father screaming for help. Kefas said his mum shouted that it was armed robbers that were attacking them and told him not to enter the room.

A 65-year-old blacksmith, Najim Bakare, who has been arrested by the Lagos State Police command, says he makes guns and sells them for N30,000 each.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Bakare and three others were arrested for allegedly indulging in cult activities in the Ajah area of the state.

Our correspondent gathered that Bakare allegedly sold a gun to a gang which the police have now recovered.

The suspect, however, told PUNCH Metro that he sold the guns because he was poor and needed to make ends meet.

Apart from Bakare, the other suspects, who allegedly fomented trouble in the Mobil Road area of Ajah, are Adewale Odusote, Tairu Idris and Dare Ayetoba.

Our correspondent learnt that 22-year-old Odusote, who hails from Epe, Lagos, was the first to be apprehended by policemen attached to the Rapid Response Squad after a tip-off. He was reportedly heading to deliver the gun to gang members in a hideout when he was arrested.

It was learnt that after the police nabbed the gang, they took operatives to Bakare’s house.

PUNCH Metro gathered that apart from the double-barrelled shotgun, the police had recovered one live cartridge and one jack knife from the gang.

Bakare, who hails from the Ibeju-Lekki area, said he sold the gun to the gang for N30, 000 and used the money to meet some domestic needs.

The father of five added that the gang members lied to him that they were security men and they needed protection.

He said, “I am a blacksmith. I make hoes, cutlasses and other metal appliances. I also make guns. It is true that I sold the gun to the gang. I sell guns because I need to meet family demands. I sold it to the boys for N30, 000.

“They did not tell me they were cultists. They said they were security men and they needed protection. That was why I sold the gun to them.”

Odusote, who confessed to being a member of the Aye cult, said there were more than 50 persons that were initiated in March 2012 when he joined.

He said, “I dropped out of secondary school in 2012, and became an apprentice barber. It was a friend, Lukman, who introduced me to the cult. We were initiated in a bush in Epe around March that year.

“More than 50 of us were taken to the bush. It was at about 9.30pm. They beat us inside the bush. They were seven masters, and they flogged us with whips. We also drank some hard drinks. That was all.”

Idris, 25, from Ajegunle who is married with two children, said he joined the cult to protect himself from attacks, adding that his wife also knew he was a cultist.

He said, “We do not see any big deal in cultism. We joined to protect our area and ourselves because hoodlums were always invading the Alaguntan area where I stayed.”

Our correspondent learnt that a gang member, identified only as Asunmo, was still at large.

The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the arrests, adding that investigations were ongoing.

DrBulalaa:
I posted this news since nahh

A 25-year-old man, Tochukwu Madu, has set himself ablaze after a failed attempt to kill his mother with a cutlass.

The tragedy, which occurred on Wednesday, also led to the razing of their bungalow situated on No. 12 Bonny Street in Umuahia, Abia State.

Part of the building, located at the heart of the state capital, serves as stores for traders, who have converted the street to a mini-market after the relocation of the Umuahia Main Market from a nearby location to Ubani.

According to an eyewitness and a tenant in the building, Mrs. Precious Madu, the culprit, a notorious Indian hemp smoker, attacked the mother around 10:30 pm after locking her up in their two-room apartment.

Another source said he inflicted several deep cuts in the mother’s head and upper arm until she slumped and pretended to be dead before he left her to kill their dog, which was barking inside the compound.

But before he could return to complete his mission on the mother, the woman had managed to escape through the window.

The culprit was said to have made a move to slaughter his elder brother whom he had also locked up in another room, but the brother was smart enough to escape through the ceiling.

The police were quickly alerted by neighbours who noticed the strange development.

When the police arrived the scene and started searching for the suspect, he was said to have disappeared into one of the rooms in their house where he securely locked up himself.

He was said to have poured fuel on himself and set himself on fire that also gulped the entire building.

“As the police were looking for him and could not see him, what we noticed suddenly was that smoke started coming out from one of the rooms. Before it was broken, the whole house was already up in flames.

“When finally, the door to the room was broken, he was found burning and efforts to save him proved abortive as he died immediately as a result of severe burns,” the source said.

Mrs. Madu (tenant), who said she lost all her property to the inferno, appealed to the government and public-spirited individuals to come to her rescue and that of other tenants, adding that nobody could save a pin from the house.

When Southern City News visited the scene of the incident on Thursday, charred cloths and tailoring materials were observed in one of the rooms, which served as a workshop for a tailor.

The rooms were also littered with burnt household items and personal belongings while the roof of the house was damaged by fire.

Meanwhile, the mother is currently hospitalised at the intensive care unit of the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, where doctors are still battling to save her life, following deep machete cuts inflicted on her by the deranged son.

An officer of the state fire services, Mr. Chukwuemeka Okezie, who helped to put out the fire, told our correspondent that if not for the timely intervention of his men, the fire would have spread to other buildings in the neighborhood.

He called for quick and united action against drug abuse and Indian hemp consumption, especially among youths and observed that drug abuse had been on the increase nationwide.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ezekiel Onyeke, confirmed the incident, describing it as ‘very unfortunate’.

Onyeke said the wounded mother had been responding to treatment and appealed to parents to report any of their children or wards suspected to be consuming any form of hard drug to the law enforcement agents for necessary actions to avoid any form of colossal damage.

Speaking haltingly as if each word gave him tremendous pain, Lekan explained that his father beat him one night so brutally and pushed him down from the top of the stairs of their two-storey building apartment.

A public policy organisation on African affairs, the Africa Political and Economic Strategic Center (AFRIPOL) has recommended former President Goodluck Jonathan for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The organisation noted that the will of Alfred Nobel, the progenitor of Nobel Prize stated that Peace Prize be awarded to whoever “shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”.

Accordingly the organisation the ‘peaceful way President Jonathan conceded to President-elect Buhari deserves the attention of Nobel Peace Prize committee. He may have not promoted “fraternity between nations” but he surely promoted fraternal peace among Nigerians by conceding power.’

The group maintained that the “concession speech by President Jonathan averted bloodshed, violence and imbroglio in the most populous country in Africa. This gesture by Jonathan [sic] buttressed to the whole world that Nigeria has joined the comity of civilized nations”.

A young Nigerian lady by the name Tonia Okojie, has been reportedly murdered by Russian master after she allegedly refused to go beyond her duty boundaries.

The lady who is said to be in her 20s, according to reports, had gone to the country in search of greener pastures and settled for the work of a housemaid but her boss wanted her to extend her job description to his bed but when she refused, he reportedly beat and tortured her to death.

To make the matter worse, when the case got to the authorities, the Russian police reported that Okojie had an accident, ruling out the issue of torture.

But it is gathered that the Nigerian Mission in that country is not doing anything to ensure the deceased gets justice as none of the officials there is willing to follow up the case.

A 32-year-old man, Sunday Aneke, was on
Wednesday arraigned before the Federal High
Court in Enugu for defiling his 10-year-old half-
sister.

Rotimi47:
you most be an Aiye guy! Why all your is believe to be members of Eiye! Na only Aiye dey kill Eiye? 9 people are killed and they are humans beings! Try to be constructive in your reporting!

IYANGBALI:
i don't know why they don't carry fanta,sprite,schwepps,seven up or even maltina,it is always coke everytime. They should start carrying fanta and others too jo

At least nine persons have been killed while many were severely injured as the clashes between two cult groups resurfaced in Ijebu Ode township in Ijebu Ode local government area of Ogun state.
It was gathered that the two cult groups that have been terrorising the peaceful town of Ijebu Ode are the Aiye and the Eiye groups.
The crisis began last Tuesday after the killing of a member of the Aiye group, who is a student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnics, MAPOLY, Ojere in Abeokuta was in Ijebu Ode to visit his sister who got married last Saturday to one Sanwo, who was identified as a former leader of the group.
The boy, who is known as Kole was murdered at Paka base around Aiyegun junction in Ijebu Ode last week Tuesday. The development triggered his colleagues to begin to unleash terror on the Eiye cult group.
The following day, Wednesday, last week, a member of Eiye group identified as Saheed, who works at the sawmill in Ejirin road, Ijebu Ode as a loader was killed at Olisa street in Ijebu Ode.
Similarly, two people were killed on Thursday, throwing the town into palpable fear as sporadic gunshot rented the air for most part of the day.
One person was killed around Molipa expressway while another, whose alias is “Ikotun Egbe” was also shot dead at Idogi street, around Italapo area. Both were believed to be members of Eiye cult group
Our correspondent gathered from a relative of the deceased that “Ikotun Egbe” has been out of the town for two years and only arrived that Thursday afternoon, hoping to resume as a driver for truck loading company Continental Brewery, Imagbon-Ijebu.
The matter got to the peak this week Tuesday when Ijebu Ode became a battle field for the cultists as markets and shops were hurriedly locked up when the boys started shooting sporadically and displaying dangerous weapons while chasing themselves around the town.
At the end of the day, three persons, believed to be members of Eiye cult group were killed while another two escaped the onslaught as they fled through Sabo road to Itanrin township.
The first victim was killed at the Awujale roundabout, near the local government secretariat, Itoro. The second person, by name Segun, a.k.a. Omo Alhaja, a motorcycle ticketer was killed at the Talbot junction, opposite the Catholic church, beside St. Augustine primary school.
The identity of the third person, whose corpse was seen along Makalewo road, along Oke owa road could not be ascertained as at the time of filling this report.
The duo of Kemi, a.k.a. OBG and Yemi, also known as Old soldier, who sources revealed are members of the Eiye cult group escaped after suffering attacks several times between Monday and Wednesday (yesterday).
OBG is the Chairman of the AMORAN body, a motorcycle group at the Sabo junction in Ijebu Ode.
Efforts to get the DPO, Igbeba police station to react to the killings proved abortive but a police source confirmed the killings within the town in the last one week to our correspondent.
The source who pleaded anonymity however disclosed that the incident has been a thorn in the flesh of the police but noted that plans are underway with the support of the Vigilante Service of Ogun state, VSO to nip them on the bud.

Nickymezor:
Well its possible. .. Anyway na him sabi finally

Nzom, an auto parts dealer, who hails from
Anambra State is married and has two children.
He said he would have been paid $1,500.

Nickymezor:
Hmmmm, he got was he was looking for n more next tym he won't dare raise a finger on her

Two sisters, Essiet, 18, and 20-year-old Debby (pseudonyms), have been raped by a gang of six men who accosted them in the Bariga area of Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the victims were returning from a hospital in the Oworonsoki area last Thursday when they were attacked by the suspects.

It was learnt that while Essiet was deflowered by four men, her elder sister, Debby, was ravished by two of the hoodlums.

When PUNCH Metro visited the scene of the incident on Ogundero/ Dahomey streets on Wednesday, the people in the area said they were not aware.

Some of those who spoke said they were not living in the area, but only ran their trade on the streets.

However, our correspondents learnt from a source that the matter was reported at the Bariga Police Station and two of the suspects had been arrested.

PUNCH Metro spoke with Essiet who described her experience as a nightmare.

She said, “It happened on May 21 around 11pm. My sister and I went to give food to a family member who had just given birth to a baby in Oworonsoki.

“We were returning in the night when we saw the men. They had guns, cutlasses and other weapons.

“They waylaid us and said if we shouted they would kill us. They took us to a spot around Dahomey junction and raped us.”

The second victim, Debby, described the incident as painful.

She said she wanted the suspects punished and their accomplices, who were still at large, arrested.

She said, “Two of them raped me, while four raped my sister.

“The third man wanted to rape me when a car approached. They all took to their heels. It was a painful experience. I have taken different medications and visited the hospital as well.”

PUNCH Metro was told that a day after the act, one of the victims, while passing through the area, spotted one of the suspects.

She was said to have reported the matter to the police, who arrested the suspect.

Debby said, “We were able to recognise him because when they were raping us, he took my phone and also shouted at me to stop looking at him. We saw his face clearly.

“I just want them to go to jail for what they have done to us.”

However, the two suspects ─ Mayowa Adeniji (21), and Riliwan Oladapo (25) ─ said they knew nothing about the incident.

Adeniji, who claimed to be an artiste, said he was at a club in the Gbagada area when the police arrested him and Oladapo.

He said, “I am an artiste by profession and my stage name is D. Dot. I have released several albums that are being aired on radio stations. I have been doing music for the past 11 years and I have done collaborations with many artistes in this country.

“Though I am a street guy, I know what I am doing. On the day the police came to arrest me, I was having fun with my back-up artiste and there were five girls at my beck and call.

“I didn’t know why they came to arrest me until I got to the station and saw these small girls saying we raped them.

“I have never met them in my life and I don’t know what they are talking about.”

Oladapo, on his part, said he was only a victim of circumstances.

A family member of the victims, Christopher Iheme, said relatives of the suspects had been begging them to let go of the matter.

He, however, insisted that the family wanted justice.

“We have spent a lot of money on their treatment. But that is not the issue.

“It is painful for us because the 18-year-old was deflowered by the gang.

“We are worried that her elder sister might be pregnant. But we will take her to the hospital for a checkup.

“The families of the two suspects have been begging and asking us to name our price. But we want them punished to serve as a deterrence to others like them,” he said.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the incident.

He said, “We have arrested the suspects and transferred them to the Department of Criminal Investigation, Panti, Yaba.

“I am also aware that the detectives have taken the suspects to court.”

Mogidi:
Many people are regretting already and its not even one week yet.

nigerianvenom:
No more the president acting fast. Hypocrisy at its peak

Obiagelli: