Police arrest ‘cultist for killing rival’ in Lagos restaurant

The Lagos police command has arrested one Jamiu Rashid, a suspected cultist, over the death of a rival.

Rashid was on July 7 captured on CCTV shooting to death one Akinola Ayegbusi at a restaurant in the Alapere area of the state.

Benjamin Hundeyin, the spokesperson of the command, said investigations revealed that the suspect is a member of the Klansman confraternity.

He said two other suspects were also arrested in the course of the investigation.

“Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a suspected cultist, Jamiu Rasheed, aged 22, who was captured on CCTV on July 7, 2022 hacking and shooting to death one Akinola Ayegbusi, a rival cult member at a restaurant in the Alapere area of Lagos state,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Investigations revealed that Jamiu has been a member of Klansman Confraternity since 2017 and has participated in the killing of two other rival cultists.

“Investigation into the crime also led to the arrest of the armourer of the group, one Sheriff Module, aged 26, who was found with two locally made pistols; and one other cultist, Emmanuel Samson.

“Sheriff who was also part of the killing confessed that it was carried out to avenge the death of their leader who was killed by the Eiye Confraternity on November 23, 2021.

“Efforts are ongoing to arrest other fleeing cultists. Suspects will be arraigned at the conclusion of investigations.”

Abiodun Alabi, commissioner of police in the state, urged parents and guardians as well as traditional, religious, and political leaders to prevail on their children and the teeming youth population to abstain from cultism and other social vices.