Shomolu area of Lagos, has for some time now been held by the jugular by two notorious cult groups. However, recently, the two notorious groups turned their guns on one another. How did it happen?
Two notorious cult groups, that had tormented residents of Lagos State for years have again clashed at Shomolu area of the state leaving one person dead and many others critically injured.
One of the groups, called the EFCC Boys, reportedly clashed with a rival group known as the AYE group around Abiodun Street, Shomolu in the metropolis.
The bloody clash occurred on Tuesday, 3 July, 2013, around 8:30 in the evening. At a time when many residents were returning from work, pandemonium suddenly descended on the entire area as sporadic gunshots rent the air sending many scampering for dear lives.
It was reported that trouble started when some members of the EFCC boys, identified as Dimeji Oluwa, Okanlawon Oluwa, Yomi Ado, Saunpal, Omo Ese Igbinabaro, Rasaki Oseni aka Osanle and other EFCC boys accosted one notorious cult member, popularly called Mosquito, who is a member of the Aye group around 11:00a.m., that Tuesday. All of them were reportedly armed at the time of the attack on Mosquito.
The said Mosquito, who was well known to be an adversary to the EFCC boys, was allegedly beaten, disposed of his necklace and tortured. In the end, Mosquito reportedly managed to escape from the EFCC boys.
The said Mosquito reportedly ran to Idi Araba-base of his own Aye group. Around 8:00p.m the same day, the Aye group, staged a reprisal. They stormed a hotel said to be the hideout of the EFCC boys along Abiodun area of the locality.
Shooting indiscriminately at the said hotel where they perceived their adversaries were hiding, the Aye boys reportedly chased their rival group through several streets in the area.
In the end, one Isiaka, alias Sooku, said to be a notorious member of the EFCC boys and armourer to Rasaki Oseni aka Elewure, acclaimed leader of the EFCC boys, was reportedly gunned down. Sooku was reportedly squatting with some friends at Abimbola Lane off Odunlami Street in Shomolu.
According to some residents, but for the efforts of the Divisional Police Officer of the area, more mayhem would have been unleashed by the groups on one another and other innocent residents.
Efforts were made by his group to save the life of Sooku as he was rushed to the Ogunsholu General Hospital in the area.
But he later died from the injuries he sustained in the bloody clash and was reportedly buried in his native Ijebu Ode town last Wednesday.
A resident, Raimi Adewale, in a chat with Saturday Mirror, urged the state government to rise up to the challenge and save Shomolu from the claws of the miscreants.
“We have made series of appeals to the Lagos State government and other security agencies about the notorious activities of these bad boys but nothing concrete has been done until now.
Like what happened last Tuesday, the entire neighbourhood was thrown into serious panic and parents could not even come out to look for their children.
Everyone was locked inside his home for fear of being attacked. But the police rose up to the occasion this time as they gave the boys a good run for their money,” Adewale said.
A woman house owner in Ore Ofero Street, but who declined to give her name apparently for fear of reprisal, told Saturday Mirror on phone that most of the cult members operating in the area had their parents resident there. In the words of the fair-skinned Septuagenarian, “We are all tired of these bad boys.
The way they operate here is as if they are their own government and no one outside can do them nothing,” A police source in the area told Saturday Mirror that a manhunt has been set for the fleeing cult members, but declined to give details apparently because of the ongoing investigations into the matter.
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