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Two cultists, Makinde Quadri, aka Makay, and Yusuf Ayinla, aka Fresh have been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly stabbing and killing a member of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC).
The Punch reports that the victim Daniel Alabi was killed in the Bariga area of Lagos on Saturday, April 30 while he was talking with a friend, identified as Jamiu.
The suspects who were members of the Aiye Confraternity stabbed with broken bottles and shot him in the stomach but they were arrested by the police following a tip-off.
Jamiu said: “Alabi and I were discussing by the roadside when Makay and his gang members arrived.
“They hit him with all kinds of weapons. Suddenly,
Makay brought out a gun and shot him in the stomach. He was taken to a hospital, where he was confirmed dead.”
Makay admitted that he joined the cult in 2005 but claimed he was not in the area when the murder was committed.
“I am married with a child and I live in Sango, Ogun State; I am not based in Lagos. This allegation against me is just to tarnish my image because I am popular in the area.
“On the day of this incident, I was in Sango. It was the following day that I came to Lagos. That evening, I saw a man crying. He told me that a boy beat him up because he was disabled.
“I went after the boy and gave him a blow in the mouth. I didn’t know that he was a member of the OPC. His colleagues saw me and came to attack me. They took me to their leader and they later said I was the one that killed their member that died the previous day.”
Fresh also denied the allegation and claimed he was framed because he was with Alabi the night he passed away.
Inspector Oladimeji Kazeem who is the investigating officer arraigned the duo before a chief magistrate’s court on six counts of murder, belonging to an unlawful society and conduct likely to cause breach of the peace.
The charges read in part, “That you, Makinde Quadri (Makay), Yusuf Ayinla (Fresh), and others now at large, on April 30, 2016, at about 8.30pm on Amudalat Abike Street, off Ajenipa Street, Bariga, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit: murder.
“That you did kill one Daniel Alabi, aged 30 years, by shooting him in the stomach and stabbing him with a bottle all over his body.”
The defendants pleaded not guilty but the magistrate ordered that they be remanded in prison and the case was adjourned till June 10.
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