The three corpses could not be identified as of the time of going to the press, the social media were awash with gruesome photographs of corpses said to be those of rival gang members who killed the artiste. It is believed that one of the dead cultists shot Damoche on Thursday.
But as Olaniyan was being laid to rest, members of the rival cult, are suspected to have killed him, were threatening more attacks, even after he was buried.
In response to a story carried by The Eagle Online on Friday, a member of the rival cult, who identified himself as ‘Shameful To Be A Nigerian’, said one of Olaniyan’s friends, Alo, who vowed to revenge his killing, would also be killed.
A candlelight procession was later held at 6 p.m in honour of the late singer after the burial.
Damoche was allegedly shot dead by suspected cultists at LASU main gate in Ojo.
No
fewer than 50 suspects has been arrested by the Area E Command of the
Lagos State Police Command, under the command of the Area Commander, Dan
Okoro, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, in connection with the
death of late Damilola Damoche, a 400 level student of the Lagos State
University (LASU).
The
deceased who was nurturing his singing career was shot dead last
Thursday by suspected cultists in front of the school gate, arousing
fear of a reprisal attack from the opposing faction.
The
25-year-old final year student of Banking and Finance who has since
been buried was said to have been murdered in cold blood barely minutes
after he had written a test in his class.
With
the murder, the command had pledged its commitment to seeing justice
done. From preliminary investigations and intensive surveillance, an
intelligence report was gathered by the police who set out to comb the
hideout of the suspects and proceeded to make some arrests.
Although
efforts to confirm the arrests from the state Police Public Relations
Officer, DSP Ngozi Braide, proved abortive, THISDAY yet gathered that
the arrest was to reassure members of the public that the matter has
not been swept under the carpet as claimed in some quarters.
However,
police sources who spoke on strict conditions of anonymity, told
THISDAY that the command was not taking the murder lightly and is out to
ensure that the culprits are brought to book within the ambits of the
law.
The
source however debunked the rumours that made the rounds over the
weekend which claimed that a reprisal attack by an opposing cult group
had claimed the lives of some students of the university.
The
alleged reprisal attack might have not be unconnected to the gory
pictures that was circulated all over internet showing a yet-to-be
identified person whose brains were supposedly shattered by a bullet.
THISDAY
gathered that the suspects had been transferred to the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, under the command of the
Officer-in-Charge, SP Abba Kyari, for further investigation.
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