Four Land Speculators Mobbed Mistaken For Notorious Badoo Cult Members

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE
Four people ,who were branded to be members of the notorious Badoo group in Adamo area of Ikorodu were on Friday lynched by residents of the area .
P.M.EXPRRESS gathered that it was later discovered that the slained victims were not members of the notorious cult group but land  speculators .

Three houses ,two vehicles and motorcycles were set ablaze in a reprisal attack by colleagues of the slain accused person .

It was gathered that  it all started on Thursday in Araro o area of Adamo in Ikorodu ,where an unnamed person started a building construction .

Some land speculators from Agunfoye area   reportedly invaded the building site and demanded for royalty from the owner of the building .

A resident ,Oluwafemi told the  Saturday Tribune that ” the man refused to give them money and they went away with a threat that they were coming back ‘

” True to their threat they mobilized and returned on Friday but unknown to them ,the owner of the building had alsoobilized some youths in the area ” the resident added .

A clash was said to have ensued between the land speculators and the residents forcing them to flee from the site of the building construction .

The land speculators were escaping when the residents raised the alarm that they were members of the Bafoo cult group .

It was also gathered that the residents had lied that the slain land speculators had earlier in the day killed a family of four people..

More residents were mobilized and they reportedly chased the land speculators to where they were caught and beaten to stupor

The residents continued to beat the land speculators for hours until the four of them died .

The death of the land speculators sparked instant crisis as hoodlums from Agunfoye mobilized themselves and invaded Adamo ,where three houses were burnt .

The Agungoye thugs ,who were armed with assorted dangerous weapons including guns ,matches and broken bottles attacked residents of Araro ,injuring some of them in the process .

It took the intervention of policemen from the RRS and local   divisions in Ikorodu before the angry hoodlums were dispersed .

Meanwhile  many residents of Araro have started relocating from the community following fears that the police might come to arrest .

Some of them also expressed their fears that the hoodlums from Agunfoye might return to avenge the death of the slain four people .

Efforts to get the reaction of the image maker in charge of the state police command ,Olarinde Famous – Vole failed as calls to his mobile phone lines were not answered .