Policeman killed, rifle taken in clash with cultists in Lagos

Suspected members of a secret cult gang, Aiye, on Friday, hacked down a policeman attached to Imota Police Station, Lagos.

Friday’s killing of the policeman is coming barely four days after a police inspector was killed and his divisional police officer injured in a bloody clash with commercial motorcycle operators in the state.

The suspects, City & Crime learnt, were on a mission to avenge the alleged killing of their member by a rival cult gang in the area.

Several others sustained injuries during the attack on the policemen, which sources said was unprovoked.

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The police source said the deceased, along with four others, were on duty at Enuren junction along Itokin Road when the suspects ran into them on Friday night.

The suspected cultists also reportedly escaped with rifles belonging to the slain officer and his colleagues.

It was learnt that the policemen were attached to Imota Divisional Police Station.

The police reportedly launched a manhunt for the killer cult members on Saturday during an invasion of their hideout in Emuren, a town in Sagamu LGA of Lagos State.

“The cult members must have taken the policemen unawares when they opened fire on them.

“The cult members in Emuren have become untouchable. They now work for a popular land grabber in Ikorodu,” a policeman from the area, said.

The residents of some parts of Ikorodu described the attack on the policemen as adding new heights to the activities of cultists in Ikorodu and neighbouring Ogun State.

Our reporter learnt that no fewer than four persons have been killed by cultists, who have become tools for land grabbers.”

Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the death of the policeman, saying that efforts were being made to track down the suspects.