The Lagos State Police
Command on Wednesday paraded a self-confessed leader of the Eiye Confraternity,
Ibrahim Balogun, aka Small Jpron, for allegedly killing five
persons during different cult wars.
Punch learnt that 29-year-old Small
Jpron was arrested on
Saturday by detectives attached to the Alade Police Division on Apata Street in
the Somolu area of the state.
It was gathered that Small
Jpron was arrested
after some suspected cultists attacked the area on Saturday and the suspect
came out with his boys for a reprisal.
A police source told
Punch’s correspondent that Small Jpron had been declared wanted for five
murder cases in the Somolu and Bariga areas in 2016.
Speaking while being paraded at the command
headquarters, Ikeja, on Wednesday, the suspect said he joined the cult to
avenge the murder of his friend in 2009 by suspected Aye Confraternity members.
He said, “I am an Eiye cult leader. I joined
the cult in 2009. The reason for my joining was to avenge the death of a close
friend, Sunday Folorunsho, aka Small Biscuits.
“It was the Aye cult
members who killed him. So, the Eiye faction approached me and said I should
join them and they would help me fish out the people who killed my friend. I
had a lot of boys working for me. I have killed three persons among whom were
FemiWiper and Lekan Akon.
“I cut them with knives. I shot some other
victims. They were killed in the Somolu and Bariga areas. It was in the evening
thatFemi Wiperwas killed. We were going
out for a carnival during the Easter period on Alade Street in the Somolu area
when a fight broke out. He was the one who first pointed a gun at me and my
boys hacked him to death.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Fatai
Owoseni, said Small Jpron had been declared wanted by the police
for multiple cases of murder.
He added that the suspect was an ex-convict.
He said, “Earlier this year, there were major
cult clashes, where criminal elements in the Somolu and Bariga areas engaged
one another in a war of supremacy culminating in the deaths of some persons.
“The gang, led by Small
Jpron, also set ablaze a
house in the Pedro area in which an elderly woman was burnt to death. The
suspect was the one who led the cult gang war. He is a known criminal in the
Somolu area.
“He has multiple cases of murder and armed
robbery which he has confessed to. Through him, we will look for other members
of the gang who turned Pedro and Somolu areas into theatres of war.”
-Punch
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