Kazeem Tiamiyu, a 23-year-old suspected member of a dreaded cult group, the Aiye Confraternity, has confessed to the Ogun State Police Command that he and his gang killed more than 15 people since he joined the group in 2012 when he was only 19-years-old.
According the Punch, Tiamiyu who was paraded by the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, at the command’s headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta, further confessed that he personally murdered five people during his reign of terror.
Tiamiyu, who said he was popularly called Butcher due to his brutality, said the murders he took part in happened during reprisals on members of a rival group, the Eiye Confraternity.
Adejobi said the suspect was arrested on Oreagba Street, Ondo Road, in the Ijebu Ode area on Sunday, January 3, 2016, after the Command had declared an all out war on cultism and cultists in the state.
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The suspect, a drop out of the Abraham Adesanya Polytechnic, Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State, also confessed that he had sold several guns to cult members in his former school, and Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, including buyers from Lagos.
“I have participated in five operations, and they were against the Eiye Confraternity. In those five operations, five persons were killed. I joined the cult in 2012.”
