Cultists kill NURTW official

Suspected cultists have shot dead an executive of the National Union of Road Transport Worker in Lagos State.
The supremacy battle and killing by suspected cultists in Shomolu, Mushin, Yaba, Surulere and Bariga areas of the State continued unabated.
The deceased, identified as 35-year-old Monsuru Taiye Seriki, popularly known as Sempe, was shot dead on his way home on Thursday night.

The late Sempe

According to an eyewitness who requested anonymity, Taiye, who was the Financial Secretary of the Unit at Mushin, left the Union Toll gate office along the railway line at about 9.30pm on a motorcycle, but was shot dead before he got home.
Narrating the incident, the source said: “Taiye got to the Junction of his house but as he alighted from the okada, about ten men who had been lurking in the neighbourhood accosted him and shot sporadically at him. They watched him die and pushed his body to ensure he was dead then they fled the scene.
“After they left, residents who had scampered for safety when the gun was being fired, came out and saw his lifeless body.”
The source added that, on Wednesday, the deceased had received a phone call from some cultists who accused him of waging war against a rival gang.
“The whole killing you see is about transport workers fighting over leadership positions. They engage in cultism to gain support and provoke fear. The free and illegal money they get is the root of the killings,” the source said.
Tension in Mushin
When contacted, the Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Damasus Ozoani, said the police were not aware of the killing of the NURTW executive.
“I have called the Oloasan police station at Mushin and the Area Commander but they said nothing of such was reported. The police cannot work if we are not aware of a case. If indeed such a thing happened we can only act when we are aware,” he said.
Residents in the area alleged that, in recent times, four suspected cultists have been brutally murdered by rival gangs.
According to them, three of the killings took place at Kusa, Johnson and Famous in Bariga.

Woman narrates police brutality ordeal

Tope Moore, a 35-year-old single mother of two children, who was allegedly brutalised by policemen attached to the Pedro Police station in Lagos State and later detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department at Panti Yaba, has been released following an order from the Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko.
Tope, who was detained over allegations that her younger brother, Bolaji Moore, masterminded the killing of one Osondu Obuneke, was released last Friday after Manko was informed of her ordeal.

Tope Martins alleges that she was brutalised by policemen who detained her in her younger brother’s stead.

The CP also detained the team of policemen who brutalised her and effected her unlawful arrest.
When she spoke about her detention, Tope wept as she narrated her ordeal. She said she intends to petition the Inspector General of Police over the police maltreatment.
“I am still in fear over how the policemen treated me. It was around 1a.m. that fateful day when my 12-year-old son, Toheeb, called me on phone that some policemen had held him at gunpoint telling him to take them to his mother. I did not spend the night with my children. I went to my boyfriend’s house that night,” she narrated.
“Toheeb said the policemen  threatened to shoot him if he refused to bring them to my lover’s house. I  was at the balcony of the house waiting, when I saw the policemen. They were over twenty in 5 vehicles. I greeted them, since I know almost all of them. They asked of Bolaji, my younger brother, the last child of the family, and I told them I had not seen him in over three months. One of the policemen  was infuriated  by my answer. He jumped into the compound through the fence, bundled me through the balcony and started slapping me heavily.

Lagos CP, Umaru Manko ordered the detention of the policemen who brutalised Miss Moore.

“I could not comprehend what was happening. It was while the beating became intense I heard him say my brother killed somebody. They took me through the fence. I was injured but they pushed me into one of their waiting vehicles with a corpse. The policemen also arrested more people. They took us to the Famous Hotel where they were given some packages including beer.
“By 2:30a.m. they finally took us to the station, where I  was made to write a statement. I  was taken  into the cell. By then, I  had been totally brutalised. I even passed faeces on my body.
“I was released after paying N15,000 and promising to bring Bolaji. But I told the police after I was taken to see the Area H commander in Ogudu that Bolaji does not reside with me anymore and that ever since I  made Bolaji to work at UAC food as a technician in training but he continued to cause trouble in the neighbourhood, I had told him not to come to my house again.
“I was taken to SCID Panti but was released on Friday after spending four days in detention for a crime I know nothing about. As I am talking to you, I’m still shaken and in fear over my ordeal. I am glad to be released but I will petition the IGP and the Police Service Commission over my ordeal.”

Students, police clash in College of Education

Some students of Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, on Monday, during a protest in the school, sustained various gunshot wounds from police officers in the Epe area of Lagos.
One of the residents of the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the entire Noforija community was thrown into disarray following the incident.
The pandemonium started when the school management restrained some students from writing their exam due to non-payment of their school fees.
The school authority had earlier issued a directive that the students should complete payment of their fees in order to be eligible to sit for the first semester examinations which started yesterday.
Some students, however, complied with the directive while others did not. The reaction the school authorities barred erring students from writing the examinations, a move which the students revolted against. The affected students protested the development, disturbing the examination and causing the eligible students to abandon their examination halls.
The school Provost ordered the eligible students back to the examination halls to finish their papers, assuring them of security. The provost then called the Police, and officers were deployed to the school and they arrested some of the protesting students.
In retaliation, the students attacked the armed Police officers, which led to further fracas between both parties.
The police officers allegedly fired some shots in the air and some of the students were hit by stray bullets.
Some of the police officers were also alleged to have sustained injuries while a student whose identity is yet to be ascertained was shot in the lower part of his abdomen by one of the police officers.
A student of Computer studies who requested anonymity said the sum of N50,000 being charged as school fees in her department could not be afforded by many.
“We have pleaded with the school authority to give room for instalmental payment, which they did not consent to. Rather than settling the issue amicably, the school authority hindered many from writing the examinations and this fuelled yesterday’s crisis,” the student said.
The number of injured students could not be ascertained and the school authority is yet to issue an official statement on the incident.

FATAI ROLLING DOLLARS IS DEAD

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Pa Olayiwola Olagunju, better known as Fatai Rolling Dollars, is dead.
The 94-year-old veteran high life musician died early on Wednesday at Ahamadiya Hospital in Agbado Ijaiye area of Lagos State.
The Yoyo Bitters Ambassador, reportedly said to have been down with an ailment for several weeks, eventually died in the hospital where he had been receiving treatment.
So critical was the illness that he couldn’t move his legs in the last few days he spent on earth.
His death is coming after he lost one his wives a few weeks ago.
Olagunju is survived by children and wives.
Details of his burial will be announced soon, a family source told The Eagle Online.

Woman incarcerated by police because of Brother

Her ordeal started on saturday 10th of June when his younger brother and last  born of the family a suspected cultist of the Eiye confratenity and some of hias member stabbed Osondu Obunneke a 19year old father at the famous hotel in bariga LCDA.
It was gathered that Osondu Obunneke had gone to the famous hotel at about 8p.m to take some bottles of beer when he met bolaji Moore ,Friday aka fryo ,Steven an okada rider in the Somolu area ,Arinze ,and Feso ,a wanted criminal who had two years ago escaped with a police handcuff at Pedro.Though Feso was later arrested when he and other cultist vandalised over 100 cars and looted goods and properties at the Popoola and Akoka area sometimes ago .He was later released by the Area H Police Command by reason s best known to them.
It was at the famous Hotel Bar that a misunderstanding ensued over a phone belonging to Bolaji that it was alleged that Osondu collectedFeso stood up and stabbed Osondu and others followed right in the presence of two Police officers ,one corporal Musa formerly of Pedro but now attached to the State anti Robbery Squad Ikeja and one corporal Owolabi attached to the Pedro Police Station an acclaimed cultist and member of the Eiye Confraternity.Present at the scene of the fight were also the Hotel manager ,Yinka a known cultist and member of the Eye group,he also has the Eye insgnia ,a bird on his armand a lady of about 14years a runaway from home who had made the famous Hotel her abode.
Immediately Feso was released he relocated to the Fadipe Area of Somolu to join gang with The Yesiru Adesanya and Okanla oluwa group of cultist terrorising the Somolu Area of Lagos State.
Tope Moore lives with her two Children Toheeb and Rokeeb Babajide. Bolaji Moore his younger sibling also stays with her.on the day of the  incident ,According to Shola Moore Bolaji left home at about 1p.m,the sister too went to her shop at Mutairu Street where She operates a beer Parlour and She is well known to all the Policemen in the Area as they patronise her.She went back after the close of the day took care of her two children and made sure they already slept and went off to her her new hearthrob to sleep at Igi Olugbin Street nearby .At about 1.20 a.m when she was deep in sleep she was woken up by Policemen attached to the Pedro police Station .The policemen had initially gone to her house at 19Mutairu Street to look for her .when they did not meet her they threatened to shoot Toheeb her 12 year old son except he takes them to where her Mother was,other tenants in the house where scared .At gun point the little boy was taking into the Police Vehicle and driven to Igi olugbin Street.The building was fenced and the Policermen Scaled the fence and forced open the door to the room where Tope Moore Slept.She was only putting on her night gown without pants or bra.they forced hetr out beat her and took her through the fence of the building ,by this time she had already urinated and passed faerces on her clothes as she could not fathom was was happening to her.She was dumped inside the police Vehicle and driven to Famous hotel with the manager of the Hotel ,four female waiters and the 14 year old minor who were all witnesses to what happened .The policemen went inside the hotel at about !.30a.m till 3.00 drinking .
She was later granted bail in the afternoon after paying a ransome of fifteen Thousand naira.But later on tuesday 11 of june ,she was later rearrested and taken to Panti.initially Panti rejected her as not been the suspect but she was later taking in.
meanwhile Bolaji moore has ran away,he made calls to some of his friends to help him monitor the way things are turning out.according to Shola Moore the Police are aware of the other cultist ,they did not arrest them nor their family members why is that of Tope Moore different.She said her sister  did not Commit any offence ,it was like Hostage taking .
Meanwhile people are accusing the police of arresting innocent members of the public on trumped up charges of being cultist and collecting money to bail them

Policemen accused of complicity in Bariga cult killing

Alleged cultists on Saturday 8th of June 2013 stabbed one Osondu Obunnike, 19, to death in Bariga. The incident happened at the Famous Bus Stop in the Pedro area of Bariga local government council in Lagos.
According to an eye witness, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals, Osondu  left his home at about 7.30 pm and got to Famous Hotel at 8 pm. The young man, who resided with his parents at 30 Ayinke Street, is said to have died from stab wounds inflicted on him by Bolaji Moore and a group of Cultist inside the Famous Hotel at around 10 pm.
“When he (Osondu) entered the bar, he met some members of the Eiye confraternity, who asked him for money. His refusal to give them money infuriated them and they accused him of being a member of Aiye, a rival cult, claiming to have seen him sitting with members of the Aiye at Ladylak area of the estate.
“The Eiye cult members namely Bonjeu, Arinze, Ahmed,Friday aka fryo ,Steven an Okada rider in somolu and one Feso, Ayo and Akilapa, were all in the hotel bar. They stabbed him (Osondu) many times and he ran away from the hotel to get help (sic).
“There were two police officers at the scene of the stabbing with the Famous Hotel manager Yinka, who also has a bird tattooed on his arm. The policemen, one Owolabi and a Corporal Sanni – formerly with the Pedro Police Station and now of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS),  were together with the cultists  when the incident happened,” said the witness.
The eyewitness added that the bleeding Osondu ran outside the hotel, and was able to get assistance from a tricycle rider who took him to the Ladylak Hospital where he was rejected and referred to the General Hospital at Somolu.
Eye witness account also said it was one Bolaji Moore who first stabbed Osondu that later took him to the hospital at Johnson when it was rejected and they knew he might die ,they abandoned him at the Taxi Park near famous and absconded

The late Osondu was allegedly denied medical treatment by the actions of a policeman named Sanni.

“On their way back (from Ladylak Hospital), Corporal Sanni stopped the tricycle driver and asked that the bleeding Osondu be brought down from the Keke Napep (tricycle taxis) at the Famous Bus Stop. He now ordered that they go and call his mother to come and carry her son as he  has denied him urgent medicare. Before the mother could come to the scene to take him away, Osondu died,” the witness explained.
Rising spate of cult activities
Residents of the Somolu area say they are worried about rising incidents of cult killing in the area.
A resident who simply gave his name as Jimoh said: “For some time now, places like the Arena Club at Jibowu have been known as hideouts of the AYE  cultists as the the Famous Hotel Pedro Road in Bariga the Hideout of the Eye. sincerely speaking this Policemen know thembut they always go for the Wrong people.Feso was arrested by the Police they never took him to court.In the Somolu area Fadipe Street ,Ajose ,Sodimu,Okoh Close and Majiyyagbe are known hideout of the Cultist  . The police in Alade are Compromised especially with the Former Dpo of the Station Busari Okunola and some of the Police who had an unholy alliance with the Cultist.They allowed the EFCC/cultist Boys to operate without hinderance.Okanlawon Oluwa ,olumide Adebayo aka Ogbor who is presently in the Custody of the FSARs at Adeniji.These Boys have colonised Johnson areas of Ladylak . and all the Carnal areas of Somolu.The Politicians too are not helping issues, it is the politicians that are maintaining them..These are known boys,boys like Seun aka Igbinabaro ,Jamiu Omese ,Saunpal Rasaki Oseni aka Elewure a younger brother to Wale Oseni the CSO to the Somolu Local Government.Imagine the Policer said they declare the boys wanted they are still in Somolu terrorizing people.Kunle Atunrase and Rasaki Oseni are always at the majiyagbe end stealing and obtaining people The manager is a member and some policemen, notably Owolabi and Pepper have been accused of being members of the Eiye group and are always supporting them.”
 As sympathizers gathered to  mourn Osondu’s  death on Sunday Night, policemen came to dislodge them, firing shots in the air. In the ensuing confusion, it was reported that a boy Kazeem Wahab aka Tiny   hit his head against a cow horn and died and died on the spot.When the policemen at Pedro realised the boy died they quickly entered their vehicle and sped off.
Meanwhile effort by some youths of the Aye Cult to burn down the Famous Hotel was repelled by the Police

HOUSE ON FIRE

Presently a bungalow at 52 Akeju Street Somolu  is on fire .The building is almost razed down yet the fire fighters are yetr to come to the scene.