Leaders of one of the cult groups in Ogun State have narrated how they butchered their rivals to death and cut off their hands for the ritual to fortify them against attacks and from being arrested by security agencies.
The three cult leaders, who confessed to being leaders of the Aiye Confraternity, terrorising Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital were arrested by policemen from the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), led by Olatunji Disu, a deputy commissioner of Police.
The arrested cult leaders were identified as: Saeed Taiwo, Isaiah Babatunde and Oyede Sulaimon and they were reportedly responsibility for some of the killings of suspected cult members around Ita Oshin and neighbouring communities in the Ogun ancient town.
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“How we killed our rivals and used their hands for rituals against attacks and arrest” ― Ogun cult leader
“How we killed our rivals and used their hands for rituals against attacks and arrest” ― Ogun cult leader
The leader of the gang, Saheed Taiwo confessed that his gang not only killed rival cult members but also cut their hands and use for rituals to fortify themselves against attack from their rival and against arrest from the police .
A police source at the IRT said that the police are on the trail of another notorious member of the gang, simply identified as Ben, who reportedly vanished into thin air with the gang’s AK 47 riffle.
Saeed Taiwo in his confession to the police said “My name is Saheed Taiwo AKA Akerele. I am from Abeokuta, I am 27 years old. My father is from the Ita Oshin area of Abeokuta. I attended Julys Nursery and Primary School, Ita Oshin, Abeokuta and Anglican High School Ibara, also in Abeokuta. I dropped out of school in SS 2 in 2019.”
The suspect confessed that “I was arrested for cultism. I am a member of the Black Axe Confraternity popularly known as Aiye. I was initiated into the group in 2018 by Easy. He was the leader and the Number 1 then.”
Taiwo explained that “On my own, I cannot say that I have killed any number of people. We operate as a group and we have killed many people. I can’t even say the number of people that we have killed. We were always instructed by our leaders in the group to go and kill.”
“Anytime we killed any rival member, we used to cut off their hands. Other members of my killer group are, Ben, Dreams others. We use the severed hands for ritual.”
Taiwo further confessed that “We have assorted arms and ammunitions. There is hardly any arm that you cannot find with our group. We have single and double barrel guns, AK 47 and many more. I was using a double barrel gun for operation. I used to keep my gun with Rasqie. He escaped on the day I was arrested by the police.
On how the gang killed a rival cult member in the Lafenwa area of Abeokuta recently, Taiwo said “It was a reprisal attack. There was an issue between our boys and the Eiye cult group. The Eiye cult group killed a member of our group during the clash. Our leaders ( Dre and others ) mandated us to go and see what was happening there. When we got there, we identified one of them.”
“Later we traced the identified Eiye member, who was one of those, who killed our member to Lafenwa and killed him. We also cut off one of his hands with our axe. We don’t call it axe in our group. We call it ‘ seven’ We took the hands to the twins. We didn’t collect any money from them.”
The cult leader also revealed that “Our gang was responsible for the killing of a leader of a rival cult group in the Ita Oluwo area of Abeokuta, some months ago . The guy’s name was Tommy. I was not one of the people that went for the operation but Ben, Dre ( Dare), Killer, Idris Aloma, who just bought a Pump Action Gun.”
“Six of them went for the operation on a motorbike. What they told me was that they macheted him to death and even shot him. He was one of the leaders of the Aiye group. All the cult killings are reprisal attacks.”
The force public relations officer, Muyiwa Adejobi confirmed the arrest of the cult members and assured that other leaders and members of the different cult groups, who were responsible for the killings in Ogun State would be arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law .
