Suspected members of a cult group have snapped a man’s neck and dumped his body inside a swimming pool.
The offence of the victim, Adeleke Awosiga, was that he asked the
girlfriend of one of the cult members for a dance. Awosiga was murdered
at Isheri area of Lagos State on June 13, around 4pm, at a birthday
party. A witness said trouble started after Awosiga approached the
celebrant’s girlfriend, Rashida Oponmiga, and requested to have a dance
with her.
“The lady, however, declined. This apparently annoyed
the cult members who had been urging him to join them and had tagged him
an enemy after he refused. “One of the cult members, Iyanu Liasu,
slapped Awosiga for asking Rashida for a dance. This led to a fight
between Liasu and Awosiga,” the witness said.
The lady in
question is the girlfriend of the celebrant, Anu Olokodana, popularly
known as ‘T-Fire’. When the uproar was getting too noisy, the hotel
management ordered everyone out of its vicinity. When Awosiga was sent
out of the hotel along with his friends, they moved towards the swimming
pool area.
This was where Awosiga was killed and his body dumped
inside the pool. The father of the deceased, Mr Adeyemi Awosiga, said:
“I was told that the celebrants and the cult members pounced on my son
and held him while one Liasu twisted his neck. They later pushed him
into the hotel swimming pool. They fled thereafter.” The matter was
later reported at the Isheri Police Division. The police recovered his
body and deposited it at Military Hospital Mortuary, Yaba. Since
Awosiga’s murder, Liasu and Rashida have been on the run.
Two of
the gang members were, however, arrested. The mother of the deceased,
Mrs Ololade Awosiga, said: “I want the killers of my son to be brought
to book. I never knew his friends were cult members.” The state Police
Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the
incident. He added that the two suspects had been transferred to the
State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos.
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