The combined team of Kwara State Police
Command and Vigilance group in Ilorin, Saturday
night, swooped on the hideout of Aiye
Confraternity initiation which led to death of
three, four critically injured while 18 were
arrested.
The cultists from neighbouring states, who were
returning from an initiation ceremony were
mistaken for robbers by the security operatives.
The command Police Public Relations Officer
(PPRO), Olufemi Fabode, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police, DSP, confirmed the
incident in Ilorin.
Fabode explained that prior to the incident, the
police had information that on Saturday night,
robbers were hiding in a bush behind NASFAT
village along Airport Road, Ilorin preparatory to
unleashing terror on the residents of the area.
He said: "This prompted various vigilance groups
in the communities around the place to mount
sentry on all roads that lead to the bush and
waited until early hours of the morning when the
Aiye Conferternity completed their initiation.
"Unaware that ambush had been laid for them,
they ran into it. The vigilance groups mistook
them for robbers and opened fire on them."
The PPRO said during the exchange of gun fire,
three of the cult members fell and were almost
burnt before men of the command got there.
The police spokesman confirmed that three of
the cultists died, four critically injured and 18 of
them were arrested and are being interrogated
by the men of the state CID.
He said some of the cultist came from as far as
Lagos, Osun, Ibadan and Oro respectively, adding
that more of them will be arrested
He said investigation still continues while those
died have been taken to the University of Ilorin
Teaching Hospital mortary , the injured taken to
hospital and the rest 18 are cooling their feet
with the CID.
He enjoined Kwarans "to always give useful
information to the Police with a view to make the
state crime free and warned parents to monitor
their wards as some of those arrested disclosed
that they were yet to gain admission to higher
institution, neither their parents know their where
about,saying if this could happen then they
would graduate to become kingpin of the group,"
he noted.
He however urged the members of various
security agencies in the state to partner with the
command in its untiring efforts to make kwara
state a crisis free one
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