The Lagos
State government yesterday sealed a filling station, an hotel and event centre
belonging to a suspected Badoo cult kingpin, Alhaji Alaka Abayomi Kamal.
The
structures, situated along Ijebu-Ode-Itoikin Road in Sabo area of Ikorodu were
sealed for violating the state’s Urban and Regional Planning Law of 2010.
The police
had on December 22, 2017, declared Alaka wanted in connection with series of
well-orchestrated killings and nefarious activities of the Badoo cult group in
Ikorodu and Epe area of the state. Alaka is believed to be the ringleader of
the Badoo menace.
The state
government in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr.
Steve Ayorinde, said the order sealing off the structures was in pursuant
to
Section 60 of the said law.
It would be
recalled that the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Imohimi Edgal, on
Tuesday, paraded a Badoo kingpin arrested in Ikorodu axis who confessed to the
killings and took police to their shrine in Imosan, a suburb of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun
State, where the group’s chief herbalist, Fatai Adebayo, was arrested.
Adebayo, who
is popularly known as Alese, was said to specialize in administering oath on
Badoo members before they go for any operation.
Revealing
how the herbalist was arrested, Edgal said: “One of the suspects arrested
confessed and he led us here that before they go for any killing, the head of
the group brings them to this gentleman (Adebayo) to come and carry out oath
for both themselves and the piece of stone they used for their killings and
that they don’t go for any killing without first of all coming for oath in this
shrine and that is why we are here.
“This
gentleman is an accomplice before the fact and so definitely we are placing him
under arrest and as well as sealing off the shrine till after investigation. I
will give further details on Thursday during my press briefing but I can assure
the good people of Ikorodu, Lagosians and Nigerians that we will not rest until
this evil is completely rooted out from Lagos State,” Edgal assured.
According to
Ayorinde, “the Lagos State government is joining the Nigerian Police in asking
the said Alaka to come out of hiding and submit himself to the law in his own
interest.
“The state
government has also enjoined the police to offer the public a reward for any
useful information on the owner of the Alaka Filling Station, Hotel and Event
Centre in Ikorodu.
“The
government is once again asking its citizens to go about their businesses
without fear. We will leave no stone unturned in keeping the state safe in
2018,” Ayorinde assured Lagosians.
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