
Palpable tension has enveloped Ilorin, the
Kwara state capital over the murder of a
notorious cultist, Bayo Ajia around noon
today, Monday.
Ajia was one of the ring leaders of the Aiye
Confraternity, a notorious cult group that
has grown in recent times.
An eye-witness, Alhaji Yekini Ishola, who
operates a commercial motor vehicle
popularly known as Okada around the
area told Sahara Reportersnews that the
incidence happened at about 12:34pm on
Monday at the Car washing place of Mr.
Ajia under the popular Stadium Bridge
along Taiwo Road, Ilorin.
Taiwo road, as popularly called, is Ilorin’s
commercial nerve centre. Ajia was said to
have been killed in cold blood helplessly by
an alleged rival cult group whose identity
is yet to be determined as at press time.
He was said to have been shot at severally
by his assailants. When it seemed that, that
would not bring him down, he was said to
have been brutally hatched with machetes.
Ilorin has witnessed a resurgence of cult-
related violence in the last four years.
The cult groups and their affiliates receded
during the tenure of former Governor and
now Senate President Bukola Saraki due to
stringent laws criminalizing the secret
groups and an enhanced policing.
With Ajia’s killing, the relative peace being
enjoyed in Ilorin is now effectively
shattered as Ajia’s cult members and
others would swing into full force in
avenging the killing of one of their big
guns.


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