Police Arrest 20 year’s old assassin who has killed 4 persons for just N10.000 each.
Confession of a twenty years old girl, Mariam,
arrested for allegedly killing many rival cult members, has narrated how she
killed for her cult group.
She was arrested yesterday by
operatives of the Ilasamaja Police Station, led by the Divisional Police
Officer, CSP Titilayo Orinyomi.
Narrating how she joined the cult,
Mariam, who claimed to be a secondary school dropout, said: “I ran away from my
house in Lafenwa area of Abeokuta to Lagos in search of work. I met one Sodiq
when I got to Lagos. Sodiq took me to his house at Ilasamaja. He promised to
give me a job. Really, he gave me a job that is beyond me. He initiated me into
an Eiye cult.
He took me to a herbalist, who initiated
me. He gave me a black substance to eat. After the oath, he told me that my
duty was to kill people. He gave me a gun and taught me how to shoot. I
learnt how to shoot by shooting at the wall. We were three that were initiated
and Sodiq gave three of us guns and
pictures of persons to kill. He trained three of us. Two boys and myself.
“I have killed four persons. Each
time that I went to kill, I usually wore a white gown and a white veil
(hijab). Sodiq, who I called ‘Brother,’ usually showed us the target’s
house. We would go to the house at night. The two boys would scale the fence
and open the gate for me. We would go straight to the apartment and shoot at
the target at close range. None of our targets survived. I killed one guy in
Fadeyi area of Lagos. Another one in Hassan area, one at Ajah.
Each time we killed someone,
Sodiq would pay me N10,000, but he would pay the others N20,000 each. I don’t
feel bad after killing anyone because I see it as a job I am being paid for.
“Sodiq loved me so much. One day, he told me that we would soon extend the killing to individuals who were not rival groups, but those who paid for justice.
“Sodiq loved me so much. One day, he told me that we would soon extend the killing to individuals who were not rival groups, but those who paid for justice.
He said our business name would be
‘Arms of Justice’ and that we should know that we are assassins. He gave me a
film to watch. In the film, I saw how people were assassinated and I loved the
job of killing.
Why we were successful in the
killing was that once I knocked on victims’ doors, and I said hello, they would
not be perturbed as it was a female voice and I would shoot the person. I shot
people in the heart or forehead at close range so they won’t survive.
“I regret being arrested because I
was hoping for a day I would be making millions, as Sodiq promised that we
would expand our business. I can kill alone; I don’t need company but I was
just marking time to do away with the two guys who were following me. I was
arrested when I heard of the arrest of Sodiq.
I thought he was arrested at Itire
Police Station, so when I went there to ask after him, the police said there
was nobody like that in their cell. It was while I was making calls that the
police from Ilasamaja arrested me.
The woman, who I later learnt was
the DPO, started asking too many questions. She asked how I came to Lagos and I
told her. She asked where my gun was, I told her that they were with Wasiu. She
opened her phones and started showing me photographs of people.
When she showed me Wasiu, the native
doctor and Sodiq, I told her that I knew them and she arrested me. I have
nothing to hide. I have killed four persons and life has no meaning to me.”
Speaking on the arrest, Lagos State
Commissioner of Police, Mr Imohimi Edgal, said that the confession of the
suspect called for serious concern as it was scary. He called on parents to be
up to their tasks, saying,
“Parents should do more by
monitoring their children. It is worrisome that her confession is startling,
chronicling the number of killings. Apart from being an assassin, she was also
an armourer for the gang. She is smiling and has no remorse. If this girl had
not been arrested, we can’t imagine what she would turn into in two years’
time.”
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