Some schoolgirls in Lagos yesterday recanted their ordeal while being
forcibly initiated into cultism by cult members who are their
schoolmates. One of the victims, who identified herself simply as Alaka,
said that one of the cult boys, Dare, took her and her friend, Suliat,
to join his group.
“Dare took me away from school with a gun and
when we got to the place at Agarawu, I was asked to kneel down by seven
boys. They took me away through tricycle. Dare and Wakilu covered my
eyes with black handkerchief.
They poured something on my body,
raped and initiated me. Dare slapped me three times and said I have been
initiated,” the 15-year-old girl said amid tears. Also narrating her
ordeal, a JSS3 victim said she was forcibly taken to Agarawu where four
boys forced her to kneel down and pulled off her uniform. The victim
said the boys gang-raped her for many days and did not allow her to go
home. She said: “They forced me into the room and ordered me to pull off
my clothes.
They blindfolded me and poured something on my body
before I was repeatedly raped for days. They said they had initiated me
by doing so.” However, nemesis has caught up with the notorious students
of King Ado High School, kidnapping, raping and initiated pupils of
secondary on Lagos Island into cultism.
They were arrested by the
Lagos Neighbourhood and Safety Corps (LNSC). The cultists initiated any
female student or other target of their choice by first kidnapping her,
forcing her to kneel down and pulling off her uniforms before
gang-raping her.
T h e y would hold the victims in hostage for
days and perform other rituals on them before they release them to go
back home or the school. They usually whisk their targets away from the
public places or school through threats and take them to a secluded
place in Agarawu area on Lagos Island and blindfold the victims before
having canal knowledge of the victims in turn.
“This is the way
of initiation into “Supreme Boys Club”, also known as Eye,” said one of
the cultists during their parade before journalists at the Safety Arena,
Oshodi, the headquarters of the LNSC. It was learnt that after
criminally initiating their victim, they would tell her not to tell
anyone or face death.
The arrested cult boys are Kadiri Ajala,
Muyideen Ganiyu, Kayode Damilare, Idogun Yinusa, Yinka Adewuyi and
Laguda Kamal. One of them, Wakilu, whose house was used as ‘Cult House,’
was yet to be arrested. Explaining their mode of operation, Chairman
the LNSC, DIG Israel Ajao (rtd), wondered why schoolboys could engage in
such dastardly acts. He said: “They don’t just kidnap, they gang-rape
them and after taking their turns, they call on other members to also
come and have their turns.
This is what they call process of
initiation for the cult group.” Ajao said the six boys, many of whom
were dropouts with some still in school, had molested their victims
repeatedly, going by the agency’s investigation. Also, mother one of the
victims, said that Alaka didn’t come home for some days. She said: “On
several occasions, we will discover that she was missing at home for
days.
I went to school to complain to the principal but I was
told the cult boys were after her. The principal called on the police to
dislodge the cult boys who come around the school. A few days after she
was also missing at home for days, it was on Lagos Island near Agarawu
that we found her. “She never told anyone what has been happening. It
was after we involved the LNSC officers before she revealed all that has
been happening.
That is why the boys were apprehended.”
Meanwhile, Ajao said that the suspects would be prosecuted. He called on
parents to always speak out when they notice strange developments from
their wards. The LNSC chairman regretted that cultism is rampant among
pupils.
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