No fewer than seven suspected cult members are feared killed in the supremacy battle between members of the Eiye and Aiye confraternities in the Shomolu and Bariga areas of Lagos State,PUNCH Metro gathered .
An eyewitness, Gbenga Lawal, said a suspected cultists, Makinde Abiodun, was killed while having a drink with his friends in the Wemimo area of Ladylack, Bariga.
Lawal stated, “The fight happened in front of my house; the guy (Makinde) was having a drink with his friends at a pub around 8pm on Thursday when the cultists came and started beating him with charms. Seeing this, I took my kids and ran inside and it was later that I heard people saying that Makinde had been killed.
“When I came out, I heard people saying that after the cultists had beaten him with charms, they used machetes to cut him in the head and body till he died. We did not hear any gunshot; they used machetes on him and when they were done, they ran away.”
Another resident, who identified himself simply as Agunbiade, said a suspected cult member, Kazeem, had been killed before the events leading to Makinde’s death, adding that five suspected cultists had been killed after Makinde’s murder.
He said, “The fight is between the Eiye and Aiye cult members and all these cultists rarely use guns to kill themselves; what they use mostly is machete. Last week, the cultists used machete to kill a rival, Kazeem, at Idi-Aba. On Thursday, another cultist, Makinde popularly called Ma-Ke, was also attacked and killed with machete around the Wemimo area.
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