The Lagos state police command has arrested suspected members belonging to Klansman Confraternity for allegedly shooting a member of the Eiye Confraternity, Akinola Ayegbusi, to death in a restaurant at the Ketu, Alapere axis of Lagos.
It was gathered that the suspects who were said to be on a revenge mission trailed the victim to the restaurant and shot him dead.
On citing the suspects, the victim took to his heels but was eventually captured on the restaurant’s premises when the heinous crime happened.
A Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) mounted on the restaurant’s premises captured the moment the victim was being attacked and eventually shot to death.
The attack threw the security guard, workers, and customers, who came to patronize the restaurant into panic as they were seen in the video clip, running helter-skelter to escape from the crime scene.
Some residents in the area who were still in shock quickly alerted the police after the suspects fled from the crime scene.
“The policemen from the Alapere Division quickly mobilized to the restaurant. They evacuated the corpse and commenced an investigation,” the source said.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on Tuesday, identified three of the suspects as Jamiu Rasheed, Emmanuel Samson, and Sheriff Module.
He said efforts were on to arrest other fleeing members connected to the crime, adding that the suspects would be arraigned after the investigation.
Hundley said, “Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a suspected cultist, Jamiu Rasheed, 22, who was captured on CCTV on July 7, 2022, hacking and shooting to death, one Akinola Ayegbusi, a rival cult member at a restaurant in the Alapere area of Lagos State.
“Investigations revealed that Jamiu has been a member of Klansman Confraternity since 2017 and has participated in the killing of two other rival cultists. Investigation into the crime also led to the arrest of the armourer of the group, one Sheriff Module, 26, who was found with two locally-made pistols; and one other cultist, Emmanuel Samson.
“Sheriff who was also part of the killing confessed that it was carried out to avenge the death of their leader who was killed by the Eiye Confraternity on November 23, 2021. Efforts are ongoing to arrest other fleeing cultists. Suspects will be arraigned after investigations.”
Hundeyin said the state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, called on parents and guardians, as well as traditional, religious, and political leaders to prevail on their children and wards, and the teeming youth population to stay away from cultism and other social vices.