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A 16-year-old Babajide Akiola was among those arrested for various crimes ranging from robbery, rape, impersonation and cultism. The boy, who belonged to a cult group operating in the Satellite Town in Amuwo Odofin local government area of Lagos, revealed how Nigerian youths get involved in cult activities.

The under-aged boy, during an interaction with newsmen, said he belonged to a dreaded cult group that has been terrorising Satellite Town in Amuwo Odofin local government area of Lagos.

The boy, a Secondary School Certificate holder, talked to the press as the Lagos Lagos State Police Command paraded the suspects at its headquarters in Ikeja.

According to him, children as young as ten, primary and secondary school students, as well as artisans, were recruited by the various major confraternity groups, such as Arrow Baga popularly known as Arrow, and were usually used as spies on other rivaling groups.

Babajide says he joined the Eiye confraternity group in 2013. He says his father, an okada rides, could do little to protect him against the cultists.

When Babajide finished secondary school, his father suggested he started working as an apprentice under a vulcanizer. On the day of the initiation, the boy was beaten by cultists who poured alcohol in his eyes.

“My position in the group is called ‘Tender’”, Akiola confessed, adding that, “This is the least position. My job is to spy on rival group members, particularly during fight and give their location to our members before they would strike. At first, no one knew I was a cultist because I was not moving with the known members. But later, my boss got to know and dismissed me.”

On how he ventured into robbery, Akiola said, “Along the line, I lost my father. By the way, my mother was separated from my late dad. She abandoned me and my two siblings with my father.

“When my father died, I travelled to the village in Ondo state to see my mother but she never welcomed me as a mother would welcome a child she had not seen for long. Rather, she called me names and sent me away, saying it was impossible for me to stay with her because she had remarried

“Thereafter, I went to my grandmother who told me to join my two other siblings with her to farm. But I refused because of the hardship there. She gave me N3000 to rent an apartment in Lagos . When I returned to Lagos, I went to stay with a friend who is also member of same cult.

“Most robbery cases in Satellite Town and its environs were carried out by cultists. I only participated in the morning raids where those leaving for their respective business places are attacked and dispossessed of their cash, phones and other valuables. At the end of each operation, I usually got between N1, 500 and N3, 000. I have never handled a gun because I was only a ‘Tender’,” the 16-year-old added.

Akiola further disclosed that series of fight in the area were caused by rival cultists. He gave names of some of two major volatile cult groups in the area as Eiye and Arrow.

He said, “We usually had problems with the Arrow boys, over supremacy .

So many persons have died during such clashes in both camps. Our hit men are refereed to as flyers and Adaba.

“To graduate from the position of ‘Tender’ to ‘Flyer’ or ‘Adaba’, it requires human blood. Anyone that can kill three persons at a go during fight with rival cult groups automatically becomes a ‘flyer ‘ or an ‘Adaba’. But I don’t have the mind to kill.

“The day I was tempted to ask what else can be done to graduate to the next level was when I saw a 10 year-old boy who was already an ‘Adaba’. He came to where I was standing with other members and cleared me off from the ground simply because I did not pay him homage.

“He ordered me to lie flat and used my back as a leg rest. That was to show me that he was senior to me in rank.

“I was told that the alternative way to rise to the next level was to undergo another round of initiation which involved payment of N15,000. Aside that, I was told that a herbalist would be invited; who would mix garri with rice and would ask me to sort out the rice like a bird.

Thereafter, I would be taken to Ibasa, a river bank where the real initiation which include severe beating would be done. I was told that several persons did not pass that stage as they died in the process and their bodies thrown inside the river.

“So, I decided to remain in my position as a ‘Tender ‘ because I didn’t have N15,000 to pay and I was also not ready for another round of beating.

“Areas prone to cult activities are Tambolo village, Ibasa, across the river, Bale, Ijegun, Egba, waterside, Fire Service around barracks,among other places,” Ariola quipped.

When asked how he was arrested, he said that members of his confraternity group usually attended parties whether invited or not, adding that on their way back, they would accost unsuspecting persons who were going to their respective places of work. He said on December 29, 2015 four suspected members were nabbed while operating at Chemist bus-stop.

Akiola said “Bolaji was with ‘weere’ (gun ) on that day. He used it to scare our victims. But we did not know that policemen were around.
“I regret joining a confraternity group.

In fact, I feel like dying because I am not prepared to go to jail. If I am freed, I will return to my grand-mother in the village and join my siblings in farming.

Reacting, the Commissioner of Police, CP, Mr Fatai Owoseni, said the suspects, would be charged to court.

Owoseni added that some leaders of the cult groups were killed by policemen during shootout.

Source: http://yarnvibes.com/16-year-old-boy-arrested-in-lagos-for-cultism-tells-his-touching-story/

Lalasticlala

brb

Loi

chai! what is this world turning to.

Just passing


Una well done o

U can still farm as a prisoner.

Cultism has eaten dip into every part of our institution..God help us! You don't need to be a part to have fun..just pay ur dues!

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dammy13:
Source: http://yarnvibes.com/16-year-old-boy-arrested-in-lagos-for-cultism-tells-his-touching-story/

What is touching about this?
They guy had a choice and he chose a life of crime over hard farm work which he's prepared to go back to if he survives this problem he's gotten himself into

There can never be a short cut to success in life you've got to pay the price
The life of crime is never a choice!

far back 2005 there was a musician in ajegunle named kimi ranking....he sang this popular song...
End o End o End o
shakara Don end oo
police Don catch am
abacrier for am don end...
shun cultism and use ur head