Five Killed As Cult Group Clash In Lagos Island

No fewer than five persons, belonging to a cult group on the Lagos Island, were feared killed Wednesday during a fight.

It was gathered that the youths from Lagos Island, had for a christening ceremony in Ajah area of the state and were returning home in a chartered Volkswagen bus when another set of hoodlums opened fire on the bus and killed five of the occupants.

Report says the driver of the vehicle and one other youth, who pretended to have been dead from the bullet wounds they sustained, were said to have escaped back to the Island to report the incidents to their relatives.

The deceased, who were identified to be boys working with the chairman of the National Union of Road Transport workers (NURTW), Oyebanji branch, Lagos Island, Alhaji Mustapha Adio Adekunle (aka. Seego), include, Samson, Ganiyu, Idris, Ladi and one other.

Residents said trouble started last week Sunday on the Island when Seego and another leader of notorious boys, identified as Tunde (Alabi Yellow) met at a social gathering and Seego asked Yellow to bow for him, but refused.

It was further gathered that Seego then ordered his boys to deal with Yellow by breaking bottle on his head, even as they tore his clothes into shreds.

The Police Public Relations officer, Lagos Command, Ken Nwosu, who confirmed the incident, said two of the attacked youths died and two others who sustained bullet injuries.