The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday paraded a self-confessed
leader of the Eiye Confraternity, Ibrahim Balogun, aka Small Jpron.
The 29-year-old, earlier declared wanted for five murder cases in the
Somolu and Bariga areas in 2016, was arrested on Saturday by detectives
attached to the Alade Police Division on Apata Street, Somolu, Lagos
after he led his boys for a reprisal attack following a recent cult
clash.
Speaking while being paraded at the command headquarters, Ikeja, on
Wednesday, the suspect said he joined the cult to avenge the murder of
his friend in 2009 by suspected Aye Confraternity members.
He said, “I am an Eiye cult leader. I joined the cult in 2009. The
reason for my joining was to avenge the death of a close friend, Sunday
Folorunsho, aka Small Biscuits.
“It was the Aye cult members who killed him. So, the Eiye faction
approached me and said I should join them and they would help me fish
out the people who killed my friend. I had a lot of boys working for me.
I have killed three persons among whom were Femi Wiper and Lekan Akon.
“I cut them with knives. I shot some other victims. They were killed
in the Somolu and Bariga areas. It was in the evening that Femi Wiper
was killed. We were going out for a carnival during the Easter period on
Alade Street in the Somolu area when a fight broke out. He was the one
who first pointed a gun at me and my boys hacked him to death.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, told newsmen that:
“Earlier this year, there were major cult clashes, where criminal
elements in the Somolu and Bariga areas engaged one another in a war of
supremacy culminating in the deaths of some persons.
He said, “I am an Eiye cult leader. I joined the cult in 2009. The
reason for my joining was to avenge the death of a close friend, Sunday
Folorunsho, aka Small Biscuits.
“It was the Aye cult members who killed him. So, the Eiye faction
approached me and said I should join them and they would help me fish
out the people who killed my friend. I had a lot of boys working for me.
I have killed three persons among whom were Femi Wiper and Lekan Akon.
“I cut them with knives. I shot some other victims. They were killed
in the Somolu and Bariga areas. It was in the evening that Femi Wiper
was killed. We were going out for a carnival during the Easter period on
Alade Street in the Somolu area when a fight broke out. He was the one
who first pointed a gun at me and my boys hacked him to death.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, told newsmen that:
“Earlier this year, there were major cult clashes, where criminal
elements in the Somolu and Bariga areas engaged one another in a war of
supremacy culminating in the deaths of some persons.
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