A notorious Eiye Confraternity leader, Ibrahim Balogun,
otherwise known as, Small Jpron was paraded by the Lagos State Police Command
on Wednesday, for allegedly killing five persons during different cult wars.
He was
arrested on Saturday by detectives attached to the Alade Police Division on
Apata Street in the Somolu area of the state, after some suspected cultists
attacked the area on Saturday and the suspect came out with his boys for a
reprisal.
Small Jpron allegedly
organised a gang which set a house ablaze in January 2016 on Oshinfolarin
Street, Bariga, during which a 65-year-old woman, Adejoke Adefuye, was burnt to
death.
According to The Punch,
Small Jpron had been
declared wanted for five murder cases in the Somolu and Bariga areas in 2016.
The suspect said he joined the cult to avenge the murder of
his friend in 2009 by suspected Aye Confraternity members. “I am an Eiye cult
leader. I joined the cult in 2009. The reason for my joining was to avenge the
death of a close friend, Sunday Folorunsho, aka Small Biscuits.
"It was the Aye cult members who killed him. So, the Eiye
faction approached me and said I should join them and they would help me fish
out the people who killed my friend. I had a lot of boys working for me. I have
killed three persons among whom were Femi Wiper and Lekan Akon.
"I cut them with knives. I shot some other victims. They
were killed in the Somolu and Bariga areas. It was in the evening that Femi Wiper was killed. We were
going out for a carnival during the Easter period on Alade Street in the Somolu
area when a fight broke out. He was the one who first pointed a gun at me and
my boys hacked him to death."
The state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said Small Jpron had been declared
wanted by the police for multiple cases of murder.
He added that the suspect was an ex-convict.
He said, “Earlier this year, there were major cult clashes,
where criminal elements in the Somolu and Bariga areas engaged one another in a
war of supremacy culminating in the deaths of some persons.
"The gang, led by Small Jpron, also set ablaze a house in the Pedro
area in which an elderly woman was burnt to death. The suspect was the one who
led the cult gang war. He is a known criminal in the Somolu area. He has
multiple cases of murder and armed robbery which he has confessed to. Through
him, we will look for other members of the gang who turned Pedro and Somolu
areas into theatres of war."
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