There was palpable tension in Sagamu area of Ogun State as suspected cultists resumed supremacy battle barely two months after many youths were murdered in the community.
Our correspondent reports that about 20 persons were killed in September when members of the Eiye and Aiye confraternities took turns to kill one another.
The government declared curfew in order to curtail the killings.
However, the cultists reportedly resumed killings on Friday by shooting two persons dead at Latawa area of Sagamu.
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Residents of the town told our correspondent that they also “heard gunshots in the early hours of Saturday.”
The police spokesman, Omolola Odutola, on Saturday, confirmed that there was a suspected murder incident in Sagamu.
According to her, the command “received a report of a suspected murder in Sagamu.”
Odutola quoted the Sagamu Divisional Police Officer as saying that while he and his men were on a vehicular patrol along Ewusi Street towards Ita Oba roundabout, they received information about a shooting incident.
Odutola confirmed that the State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu, “has personally arrived in Sagamu to oversee an open investigation into this tragic killing.”
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