A suspected cult member, Tijani Olagunju, has confessed to have killed three rival cult members to get promotion to the number two position of the group in Ilorin zone.<\/p>\n
Tijani, a member of the Eiye Confraternity, said he killed them with the pistol of his late Army Captain father AbdulAzeez Olagunju.<\/span><\/p>\n He added he was chosen by his gang members to be the executioner of rival cult members in superiority brawls.<\/span><\/p>\n The suspect told our correspondent in Ilorin on the sidelines of his parade by Kwara Police Command.<\/span><\/p>\n Tijani also revealed that he dropped out of the University of Ilorin (Ilorin), adding that he joined the cult gang in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n He added that the accompanying benefits of being number two person in the zone include food, drinks, women and money.<\/span><\/p>\n According to him: \u201cMy gang members picked me as their hitman (executioner) to accelerate my rise to the number two position in the Ilorin zone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Parading Tijani, Command spokesman Ajayi Okasanmi, said the auapect was arrested for belonging to a gang of thieves and cult gang.<\/span><\/p>\n Okasanmi added that \u201cthe suspect during one of the cult\u2019s escapades, himself and the other suspects at large, armed with one English Pistol and a locally fabricated pistol went and attacked and killed one Ismaila Alabi a.k.a Abbey, a barber at his barbing shop in Agbooba area of Ilorin on 21st of April.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTijani further confessed that sometime in February 2021 he also shot and killed one Emmanuel, a student of Human kinetic Education, University of Ilorin, in a bid to fast track his ascension to the top position in his cult group. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cUpon enquiry as to the source of his weapons, he confirmed that he took possession of his late father\u2019s pistol, a retired army captain which he used in the killings he participated.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe pistol according to him is currently with a member of the eiye cult group presently at large. Investigation into the matter is ongoing for possible arrest and prosecution of the suspects.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A suspected cult member, Tijani Olagunju, has confessed to have killed three rival cult members to get promotion to the number two position of the group in Ilorin zone. Tijani, a member of the Eiye Confraternity, said he killed them with the pistol of his late Army Captain father AbdulAzeez Olagunju. He added he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1055,4831,4830],"class_list":["post-8148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-cultist","tag-promotion","tag-rival-cult-member"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8150,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8148\/revisions\/8150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}