I shot a Policeman to death, killed two cult rivals in Lagos— Suspect

Nurudeen Kazeem, the alleged robbery suspect, who 
was last week arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command over the 
shooting of RRS police officer in LASU – Igando area, has confessed that he honed his shooting skills as a cultist.

Nurudeen popularly known as “Onyabo”, 27, a trained 
tailor turned okada rider, was arrested last week by the 
Rapid Response Squad Decoy Team in connection with the shooting of an RRS officer investigating chains of robbery cases in LASU – Iba/ Igando area.

Nurudeen had shot the officer in the leg while trying to
dispossess a delivery man of some expensive phones 
one of the gang members had ordered online for delivery 
at a specific address around LASU – Iba Road.

Onyabo, while confessing to the police stated that he
 shot the officer twice in the leg to avoid arrest.

He added that he was trained to kill by cult members 
after his initiation into Eiye Confraternity.

“I have killed two people in the past. One was to
complement my initiation into Eiye Confraternity.

I was led to a beer parlour in LASU – Iyana Iba axis,
where I was showed a man to kill. I shot the guy there
and I escaped.

I killed another guy after shooting at him, I also macheted
the victim who was a member of an “Aiye” confraternity in

LASU/Iyana Iba area”, he explained.

He stated further:

“I and a friend of mine were forcefully initiated into Eiye
Confraternity. We were asked by some guys to use our
okada to take them to a naming ceremony.

Those guys changed the route after bringing out guns to
scare us and led us into a bush where other innocent
guys were to be initiated into the confraternity.

In the bush, they beat us mercilessly. That was how we
were initiated. Since then, they armed me with gun and
cartridges to kill people, particularly, rival cult members. It
was while doing this that I was invited into robbery by

Cali (Wilfred Ehis),” he disclosed.


He added:

“He invited me to assist him in collecting phones from
delivery men. He ordered the phone online, give them the
delivery address and we ambush the delivery men and
collect the phones at gun point.”

Wilfred Ehis, 30, was re – arrested by the operatives 
after the arrest of Nurudeen.

According to investigations, he had been the brain 
behind several robberies in LASU – Iyana – Iba and 
Igando.

Sources revealed that Ehis lodged and his gang 
members lodged in different hotels around the area.

Ehis, from whom a short gun was also recovered 
sometimes in April, 2017 in company of three other accomplices had confessed to the police that he hired Nurudeen Kazeem to help him rob delivery men of online shopped phones.

According to Nurudeen:

“I have done this three times for Cali. I took the phones
to him in his hotels, where he stayed. The first operation,
he gave me N60,000. The second, he gave me N50,000
and the third, N45,000. The fourth one was the one I
shot the police officer.

I never knew he was a police officer.”

Arrested along with Kazeem were: Yusuph Bello, 33, the gang’s armourer from whom two guns and machetes were recovered,and Sunday Hassan, 26, the gang’s bike rider.
All the suspects have been transferred to the SARS office in Ikeja for further investigation.