PUNCH Metro learnt that the
yet-to-be-identified victim was on his way to the Oyingbo area of the state. He
was said to have been dragged out of the bus at the Total bus stop in the
Mushin end of the Ikorodu Road.
A witness, Jacob Amos, said
the incident happened around 8pm on Wednesday, adding that policemen from the
Alakara Police Division were alerted.
He said,
“The man was in the bus
when he was dragged out at Total bus stop. They brought him into Mushin and I
immediately alerted the policemen from Alakara.
“The police went to Adewusi
Street, and searched the place for more than one hour, but they did not find
anything. They patrolled the place and when they did not see anything, they
left.
“Around 10pm when everybody
had gone home, they brought the man to the Railway Line and push him from head
down into a filled canal. Only his leg was sticking out.”
The victim was said to have
died soon afterwards.Our correspondent learnt that policemen from Alakara later
arrived on Thursday to remove the corpse.
A witness, who did not
identify himself, said the police ordered him to pull out the corpse from the
murky water.
Friends of the deceased
from Market Street, Oyingbo, were said to have shown up to identify him.
A resident lamented that
the police in the area, were not doing enough to arrest the unrest in Mushin,
lamenting that there were saboteurs in the force.
He said it was the second
time in a week that people from the Oyingbo area would be hounded and killed in
Mushin, which could start a war between the two communities.
He said,
“The police in this area
have been compromised. When we called them yesterday that someone had been
captured around Oyewusi Street, an informant of the cultists whom we suspect
work with the police, quickly alerted the guys and they left the place.
“They brought the victim to
our side to make it look as if we are responsible for his death. Their plan is
to set the Oyingbo boys against us and trigger a war.”
Residents of the area
alleged that the increased killing of suspected cult members from Oyingbo was
orchestrated by one Rilwan, aka Itakun.
Other men said to be in the
group are White, Ese Chicago, Ina, Anarchy and Riliwanu.
The source said Itakun had
his family house in Oyingbo and left the area due to persecution by some
suspected cultists.
He said, “After he left, he
started living in Mushin with a gang member. Later, he decided to start paying
back those he perceived as the leaders of the gang in Oyingbo.
“Last week, he invited one
Tunde Eleto to Mushin and the man was stabbed and shot dead by his squad,” he
added.
However, another resident,
who spoke on condition of anonymity, denied that anyone was killed in the
community.
He said, “There is nothing
like that. Nobody was killed on the Railway Line or anywhere for that matter.”
A resident, John Ayuba,
told PUNCH Metro that the government was complicit in the cult fights in
Mushin.
He said successive
governments in Lagos State had refused to address the problem because they used
the cult members for politics.
When contacted, the Police
Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, DSP Patricia Amadin, had yet to
reply to a text sent to her as of press time.
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