• I am aware of killing, but didn’t take part —accused Detectives attached to the Commissioner of Police Special Squad 2, headed by Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Joel Ugowe Igbinazaka, have arrested a wanted cultist, who allegedly led the squad that murdered and beheaded a police officer some months ago in Ijanikin area of Lagos State. […]
• I am aware of killing, but didn’t take part —accused Detectives attached to the Commissioner of Police Special Squad 2, headed by Chief Superintendent of Police , Joel Ugowe Igbinazaka, have arrested a wanted cultist, who allegedly led the squad that murdered and beheaded a police officer some months ago in Ijanikin area of Lagos State.
A senior police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not qualified to speak to the press, said the suspect had been on the wanted list of SWATT, X-Squad, IG Monitoring Unit, and other units of the police for his notoriety. “Information at our disposal is that on March 1, five of them, Peter, Daisi, one Alabi, and another member held a meeting at City Point Hotel Wilmer in Apapa, after which they went to kill somebody at Ojora.
According to the officer, Daisi in his confessional statement in Area B told them that the five Beretta pistols and two guns are in the custody of Phillips. “We later learnt that his wife had taken the guns and hidden them. We would have arrested him long ago at Kehinde Street, Ajegunle, but when he was apprehended by one of our officers, he shoved the officer violently into a gutter because of his built, and escaped amid gunshots that didn’t pierce his body,” the officer added.
The Sabongida Ora, Edo State-born suspect said: “I was a cultist before, but I vowed that when I eventually get my freedom from prison, I will have nothing to do with cultism again. While I was imprisoned in 2019, none of my members showed up. So, I said if God helps me, I would renounce cultism and relocate from Ajegunle, which I did immediately. I got my freedom because I didn’t want anything relating to cultism again.
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