Some
schoolgirls in Lagos yesterday recanted their ordeal while being forcibly
initiated into cultism by cult members who are their schoolmates.
One of the
victims, who identified herself simply as Alaka, said that one of the cult
boys, Dare, took her and her friend, Suliat, to join his group.
“Dare took
me away from school with a gun and when we got to the place at Agarawu, I was
asked to kneel down by seven boys. They took me away through tricycle. Dare and
Wakilu covered my eyes with black handkerchief.
They poured
something on my body, raped and initiated me. Dare slapped me three times and
said I have been initiated,” the 15-year-old girl said amid tears. Also
narrating her ordeal, a JSS3 victim said she was forcibly taken to Agarawu
where four boys forced her to kneel down and pulled off her uniform. The victim
said the boys gang-raped her for many days and did not allow her to go home.
She said: “They forced me into the room and ordered me to pull off my clothes.
They
blindfolded me and poured something on my body before I was repeatedly raped
for days. They said they had initiated me by doing so.” However, nemesis has
caught up with the notorious students of King Ado High School, kidnapping,
raping and initiated pupils of secondary on Lagos Island into cultism.
They were
arrested by the Lagos Neighbourhood and Safety Corps (LNSC). The cultists
initiated any female student or other target of their choice by first
kidnapping her, forcing her to kneel down and pulling off her uniforms before
gang-raping her.
T h e y
would hold the victims in hostage for days and perform other rituals on them
before they release them to go back home or the school. They usually whisk
their targets away from the public places or school through threats and take
them to a secluded place in Agarawu area on Lagos Island and blindfold the
victims before having canal knowledge of the victims in turn.
“This is the
way of initiation into “Supreme Boys Club”, also known as Eye,” said one of the
cultists during their parade before journalists at the Safety Arena, Oshodi,
the headquarters of the LNSC. It was learnt that after criminally initiating
their victim, they would tell her not to tell anyone or face death.
The arrested
cult boys are Kadiri Ajala, Muyideen Ganiyu, Kayode Damilare, Idogun Yinusa,
Yinka Adewuyi and Laguda Kamal. One of them, Wakilu, whose house was used as
‘Cult House,’ was yet to be arrested. Explaining their mode of operation,
Chairman the LNSC, DIG Israel Ajao (rtd), wondered why schoolboys could engage
in such dastardly acts. He said: “They don’t just kidnap, they gang-rape them
and after taking their turns, they call on other members to also come and have
their turns.
This is what
they call process of initiation for the cult group.” Ajao said the six boys,
many of whom were dropouts with some still in school, had molested their
victims repeatedly, going by the agency’s investigation. Also, mother one of
the victims, said that Alaka didn’t come home for some days. She said: “On
several occasions, we will discover that she was missing at home for days.
I went to
school to complain to the principal but I was told the cult boys were after
her. The principal called on the police to dislodge the cult boys who come
around the school. A few days after she was also missing at home for days, it
was on Lagos Island near Agarawu that we found her. “She never told anyone what
has been happening. It was after we involved the LNSC officers before she
revealed all that has been happening.
That is why
the boys were apprehended.” Meanwhile, Ajao said that the suspects would be
prosecuted. He called on parents to always speak out when they notice strange
developments from their wards. The LNSC chairman regretted that cultism is
rampant among pupils.
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