The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday paraded a self-confessed leader of the Eiye Confraternity, Ibrahim Balogun, aka Small Jpron, who joined the cult to avenge the killing of his friend by a rival cult group.
According to The Punch the suspect is also accused of allegedly killing five persons during different cult wars.
The 29-year-old Small Jpron was arrested on Saturday by detectives attached to the Alade Police Division on Apata Street in the Somolu area of the state.
The suspect was arrested after he came out with members of his gang on a reprisal mission.
The suspect had been declared wanted for five murders in the Somula and Bariga area.
Speaking while being paraded at the command headquarters, Ikeja, on Wednesday, the suspect confessed to killing 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 Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said Small Jpron who is an ex-convict had been declared wanted by the police for multiple cases of murder.
He said, “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.”
Dolapo is a writer and journalist who works with YNaija. He has interests in Christianity, politics and sports.
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