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The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday paraded a
self-confessed leader of the Eiye Confraternity who has allegedly killed
many people during different cult clashes.
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A 29-year-old self-confessed leader of the dreaded Eiye
Confraternity, identified as Ibrahim Balogun, aka Small Jpron, has been
finally arrested and paraded by the Lagos State Police Command on
Wednesday for allegedly killing five persons during different cult wars
.
According to a report by Punch Metro,
the notorious kingpin was arrested on Saturday by detectives attached
to the Alade Police Division on Apata Street in the Somolu area of Lagos
after some suspected cultists attacked the area and the suspect came
out with his boys for a reprisal.
It was learnt that Small Jpron allegedly organised a gang
which set a house ablaze in January 2016 on Oshinfolarin Street, Bariga,
during which a 65-year-old woman, Adejoke Adefuye, was burnt to death.
He was sunsequently declared wanted for five murder cases in the Somolu
and Bariga areas in 2016.
The suspect who spoke with correspondents while being
paraded at the command headquarters in Ikeja, on Wednesday, said he
joined the cult to avenge the murder of his friend in 2009 by suspected
Aye Confraternity members.
“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,” he confessed.
Fatai Owoseni, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, said
Small Jpron had been declared wanted by the police for multiple cases
of murder, adding that the suspect was an ex-convict.
“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.
“The gang, led by Small Jpron, also set ablaze a house
in the Pedro area in which an elderly woman was burnt to death. The
suspect was the one who led the cult gang war. He is a known criminal in
the Somolu area.
“He has multiple cases of murder and armed robbery which
he has confessed to. Through him, we will look for other members of the
gang who turned Pedro and Somolu areas into theatres of war,” he said.
