The killings which
took place at different points in the Oluwo and Adigbe, Pansheke areas of
Abeokuta had four people killed. It was gathered that the killings were fallout
of a supremacy battle, which broke out two weeks ago among suspected members of
Eiye and Buccaneer confraternities in the area.
It was learnt that one
Muraina Ibrahim, popularly called Elebe of ND II, Computer Engineering
Department, was killed last Wednesday along the popular sap route while another
ND II student of Mass Communication Department, simply identified as Demola,
was killed last Saturday around MacJob in the Fowobi area of Abeokuta while the
identities of the other two is yet to be established but one of them was
reportedly killed at the Mango area of Oluwo also on Saturday while the other
was killed at Iyana Oloke.
Meanwhile, the
institution's Public Relations Officer, Mr. Sulaiman Adebiyi, said he heard
that two people were killed, but cannot ascertain if they were students of the
institution. He said eight students of the institution have been arrested by
the police over the killings, but described many of the arrests as arbitrary.
It will be recalled
that there was a similar bloody rivalry cult clash on Valentine’s Day. The
secret cult rivals had started attacking themselves from the institution
premises before taking to the streets killing one person at the Pansheke area
of the state.
The same Eiye and
Buccaneer confraternities were the two cult rivals at war. A yet to be
confirmed report is that the person killed was amongst the onlookers watching
the mob action against two gay partners that were exposed at a guest house also
in the area.
The gay partners
identified as Mubashir Yusuf and Kola were caught in the gay act by Mubashir’s
ex- wife, Fausat in Panseke area.
Fausat was said
to have regularly visited her friend in Pansheke and had always noticed her
ex-husband's car parked by a guest house in the said neighborhood. Coupled with
the fact that she has also been suspicious of her ex-husband's involvement in
gay activities and felt it was also the reason for her bareness.
She had claimed to
have seen Mubashir kissed and hugged fellow men in the past and that was why
she put in extra efforts to expose him by spying on him anytime she sees his
car parked by the guest house since she was still bitter about their divorce.
According to
information, on 14th of February, 2015,Fausat, Mubashir’s ex wife spotted him
entering a guest house and she cleverly pretended to be visiting a guest in
there but went after Mubashir to spy on him and when she caught him
red-handed with his partner, she raised alarm and quickly mobilized a mob
action. `.
The gay partners were
dragged outside the guest house into the main Pansheke road and were already
being lynched. But for providence, police arrest was averted.
According to an
eyewitness reports, there was pandemonium when suspected group cult rivals from
the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic had engaged in a rival clash from MAPOLY and had
taken to the streets of Pansheke in a gun battle.
“We were all gathered
here to watch how two men who were caught in gay activities where being dragged
and beaten by some thugs when the Eiye and Buccaneers started their fight and
started shooting at each other. Everybody had to scamper for safety, even the
mob attacking the gay partners dispersed to void stray bullets from the
sporadic exchange of gun fire from the cultists at loggerheads. The gay
partners were very lucky because police would have arrested them if not for the
cult clash.” Eye witness narrated.
When the Police
Division was contacted on their effort at curbing the incessant cult rivalry
attack, an officer who craved anonymity said serious effort is ongoing to end
cultism, adding that some students in connection with cult activities have been
apprehended.
