The gang war in Mushin area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria has escalated
as suspected cultists invaded a street in the area and shot dead a woman bread
seller and another woman with a baby on her back.
Incessant gun shots were heard at Showunmi Street off Isolo Road around 9:45
p.m. on Monday and residents ran in all directions to avoid being hit by stray
bullets.
It was gathered that a bread seller at Showunmi middle junction, opposite
Ewenla Street was shot in the forehead and fell into a gutter and died
immediately.
Mrs Ayoka Muinat Banire, one of the women shot dead and
her dead baby, Aisha
The most painful of them was a woman carrying a baby on her back that was
shot dead by the irate cultists.
P.M.NEWS investigation revealed that a woman, identified as Mrs
Ayoka Muinat Banire, the daughter of a landlord at 20, Showunmi Street, was shot
dead with her four month old baby, Aisha.
She had gone to buy moimoin at Ewenla Street that night when the shooting
began.
Her baby was shot in the head while still strapped to her back.
An eye witness from the Society for Youth Renaissance and Empowerment, SYRE,
in Mushin said it was the woman’s mother who took the dead baby to the Olosan
Police Post to report the matter before the police latter arrived the scene
after the cultists had fled.
The corpses were deposited at the mortuary by the police as the police
patrolled the area that night but could not arrest anybody.
P.M.NEWS gathered that residents on Showunmi Street are now living
in fear as they do not know when the cultists will strike again, while the
street is now deserted at night.
Efforts to get the police to comment on the incident proved abortive as
several calls to Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ngozi Braide did not go
through.
Several people have been killed in the last few years in Mushin and Fadeyi
area as cultists and political thugs clash over control of the turf area.
In September, 2013, the Lagos State Police Command arrested a 32-year-old
man, Adigun Muda, in connection with some murders in the Mushin and Fadeyi areas
of the state.
According to police authorities, the suspect, who is also an alleged leader
of Black Axe cult, has been linked to the killings of over 10 youths between
2010 and 2013. The police added that the suspect had, in the past, been declared
wanted by the police, charged with murder and was remanded at Ikoyi Prison for
over a year.
Last week, the Lagos State Security Council met under the chairmanship of
Governor Babatunde Fashola with a warning that all those who engage in gang wars
should desist henceforth or face the full wrath of the law.
State Police Commissioner, Mr Umaru Manko, said security agencies would
henceforth go after the perpetrators.
He said the security agencies would not only go after the boys that are
involved in the gang wars but even their sponsors, stressing that this is a
warning for them in areas like Mushin, Bariga, Shomolu and all the involved
communities.
The threat by the Lagos Police boss seems to have fallen on deaf ears as the
gangs keep killing innocent people.
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