ILORIN — 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, yesterday.
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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