By Ifeoma Ikem
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspects for allegedly belonging to the Aiye confraternity group engaged in suspected cult activities.
Sahara weekly gathered that the two suspects were apprehended at separate locations at Ijede a suburb area of the state during a raid of cultist activities .
Acting on credible intelligence, the anti cultism team unit made the arrest of the two suspects, Oladi Opeifa 40years old and Opeyemi Balogun 16years old.
Opeifa, 40 years old Aluminum fabricator, father of two said he was initiated since the year 2000 by one Gani a street friend.
He claimed that Gani who is deceased invited him to a birthday party where the deceased and about eight others took him to a corner as the party was going on inside the hall.
“The next thing I noticed was that one of them came with one cloth and covered my face while others started beating me.
” After sometime, they stopped and brought a substance and asked me to drink, which I did and it tasted like Ogogoro. Surprisingly, my friend came the next day and told me that I now belong to Aiye secret cult.
He said that although he had never been involved or attended any of their activities until Friday Aug 22.
“I was eating close to my workshop when the anti cultism team came to where I was, arrested me and took me to my workshop and began to search everywhere.
“It was during the search that they found a medicine inside a clay pot by a corner which my mother prepared for me for protection and luck so that customers will be patronizing me.
The suspect claimed that since his mother prepared the substance for him his work has improved a bit unlike before.
“I had tattoo on my body since 1998 when I was in secondary school not for anything.
Opeyemi Balogun,16 year old teenager confessed that he was initiated by one Baba at Ipako area of Ijede.
Balogun said the initiation took place January this year when one of his friends asked him to follow him to a birthday party.
” On getting to the venue many of my peer groups were all there.
“As the party was going on, the Baba selected some us and served us drinks, at the end of the party he asked us to wait that he will like to have a brief meeting with us and that was all I could remember.
” The next morning when I woke up at the party venue we were told that we were now members of the Aiye confraternity group in the community.
According to the teenager, ‘”I was doing my apprentice work but now Baba and my friend that took me to the birthday party have ruined my life”.
“I am begging for forgiveness and for the Nigeria authority to set me free, I will be a changed person, I have my future to protect.