Reports have confirmed the death of a 26-year-old bus conductor, Sikiru Adebayo, who was murdered by some suspected cult members at Oniyanrin Street, Mile 12, Lagos. They were reported to have stormed the area on Monday, last week and attacked the late Adebayo, inflicting machete cuts on his head before pushing him into a lagoon.His corpse was said to have been hidden, making it difficult for his relatives to find it.
Punchng learnt from residents of Mile 12 that the Osun State indigene was among a crowd of people who ran for their lives when the cult members unleashed mayhem on the residents of that area.
His elder brother, Moruf Adebayo, explained that they were still reveling in the hangover from the Sallah break when they were attacked. He said:
It was three days after Sallah and we were having fun. One of us was singing, while the rest of us danced and joked. I went to the toilet, came back and saw some boys – about four of them; wielding cutlasses, bottles, sticks and all forms of weapons. They started attacking people and we all took to our heels. But my brother could not make it as they pinned him down and hacked his head before pushing him into the water.
I had planned to travel with my brother to Osogbo for a festival and had also given him N58, 000 to keep for me in preparation for the trip before they killed him.
Another resident, Kayode Fafunke, said the gang came from Obanta Street, a neighbouring community.
He said:
When the dust had settled, we didn’t know what had happened to Sikiru. But when we didn’t see him, we asked around and somebody said he saw the men cutting somebody with cutlasses and pushing him into the waters. His relatives from Osogbo came around and we hired fishermen and paid them to help us look for him. It was around 2pm that they called us that they had found his bloated body.
Our correspondent learnt that the victim had been buried near the water bank.
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