- I only killed one person, suspect claims
A 32-year-old man, Bakare Saheed has revealed how he killed his rivals while operating as a member of a secret cult known as Aye Confraternity.
He explained that a notorious political thug in Osun State, Owoeye Olabode, popularly known as Bode Itaapa, was the leader of the group.
Saheed, also known as Ewe, disclosed that some top gangsters including Bọde Itaapa, Bisi Iwara, Solo Iwara and one Allen J who is dead, recruited him into occult society in 2014 and that they have been sending him on different assassination errands ever since his membership.
The suspect, while confessing to his crimes after his arrest by the men of the Osun Police Command, explained that many of his missions to kill people were not successful.
He said he managed to kill someone in 2020 and that the name of the victim was Tafa.
Saheed said he enrolled into the secret group when he was 22 year-old, adding that his parents were not aware he was a cultist.
According to him, Bode Itaapa gave him the gun that he used in killing Tafa who was a member of a rival cult group, Eiye.
Saheed said he returned the gun to Itaapa after the murder.
Police spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola, said following Bode Itaapa’s arrest, members of different occult societies in Itaapa town migrated to a neighbouring town, Igangan.
She said Saheed was arrested after residents of Igangan alerted the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Police Command of his criminal activities and onslaught in the town.
According to her, the suspect killed many people and participated in cult clashes before his arrest.
The PPRO noted that Saheed has been felling people’s trees in the area with impunity, adding that the hoodlum had been threatening farmers in the locality with deaths and asking them to forfeit their farmlands.
She said the murder suspect would face prosecution after the conclusion of the investigation.
