Monday, August 3, 2026 -A security guard identified simply as Godwin has been killed by suspected cultists in the Abule Ijesha area of Yaba, Lagos State.
According to Punch, the attack occurred on Saturday evening, throwing the community into panic.
A police source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because
he was not authorised to comment on the incident, said the assailants arrived
in a vehicle, accosted the victim near his duty post and shot him in the head
before attacking him with an axe.
The source said, “We received a report that gunmen suspected
to be cultists killed a security guard identified as Godwin in the area. The
assailants came in a vehicle and shot him not far from his duty post.
Eyewitnesses also reported that they attacked him with an axe.”
The gunmen were said to have fired sporadically into the air
as they fled, causing panic among residents.
The police source added that security operatives had
launched an investigation and were working to identify and apprehend those
behind the attack.
Meanwhile, an anti-cultism platform, Naija Confra, claimed
in a post seen on Sunday that three other persons sustained gunshot injuries
during the incident.
According to the platform, “Eyewitnesses reported that the
attackers came in a white Mercedes-Benz, shot at Ibadan, and then attacked him
with an axe on the head and hand. The attackers were also said to have fired
randomly at other people in the area, leaving three innocent girls with bullet
wounds. It is unclear whether their random shooting killed another person.”
The police have yet to confirm the reported injuries.
Efforts to get the reaction of the spokesperson for the
Lagos State Police Command, CSP Abimbola Adebisi, were unsuccessful, as calls
to her telephone line were not answered. A text message sent to her had also
not been replied to as of the time of filing this report.
Cult-related violence has remained a recurring security
concern in parts of Yaba despite police efforts to curb the menace across the
state.
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