Ikorodu resident narrates how he narrowly escaped death as he was mistaken for a Badoo member

Mr. Akinrinlade Ayodeji mistaken for a Badoo Cult Member

Mr. Akinrinlade Ayodeji explained how he got away from being lynched by angry residents that had mistaken him as a member of a cult group, Badoo, terrorizing Ikorodu, Lagos.



Ayodeji who lives at Ikorodu posted on facebook to explain the incident. He said that at 7:30, he was going to fetch water with a jerry can, a few houses from his residence when other residents suspected that the Jerry can of water he was carrying for engine oil which was said to be one of the identifying tags of the Badoo cultist.

He titled the story, ‘Ikorodu’s Badoo brouhaha: My story,’ he said that on Monday, July 3, he returned home from work at about 5:21pm and took a short sleep which lasted till 7:39p.

After he woke up, he found out that there was no water in the house and he decided to go fetch from a tank close to his house.

He was surprise when someone stopped him asked what he was doing in the streets at that hour of the day, with a jerry can.

“Hey hey! What are you coming here to do at this time?” Someone asked him,

He replied, “Sorry sir, I am actually here to fetch some water.”

The stranger questioning him was not interested in Ayodeji’s explanation and landed a slap on his face.

He wrote: “Before I could finish explaining myself, I saw a very furious man and decided to just turn back to my house. But before I could take three steps forward, I just felt a big and several bangs on my face through the back.

“At this point, I was lost, wondering if the world was ending today.

“Immediately, I saw people gathered, asking in Yoruba, ‘Ki lo de, ki lo sele? (what happened, what’s going on).”

Unlike the horrible fate that befell Chinedu, a comedian, who was lynched by a mob who had mistaken him to be a member of Badoo cult in Ikorodu last weekend, Ayodeji had a different fate, he was recognized by his neighbours who rescued him from being beaten and burnt alive

“To cut the long story short, people attested that they know me, even asking the said baba (his assailant), ‘Don’t you know him?’

“They all apologised after several slaps and molestation initially, then I just carried my gallon that someone else had helped fill with water, obviously out of pity, then walked towards my house, entered my room, put off my already tattered cloth, sat down and started imagining what just happened, hoping it was just a dream, behold, it wasn’t, it was real!” Ayodeji wrote.

Few minutes after the incident, he was still thinking about what incident when he heard voices at the entrance to his apartment.

Four elderly men entered when he opened the door which he suspected to be landlords, alongside the man that had raised the false alarm and one of his neighbours. They expressed deep apologies for what had just happened.

“They all said they were sorry for the ugly incident, with the man that punished me particularly holding me tight, just to show his level remorse.

“I almost shed tears at that point, but I had to be a man. I told them to take things easy, that two wrongs can never make a right,” Ayodeji wrote.

He said that though he told them that he was okay, the beating he received was severe, as several people slapped him repeatedly all at once, until someone identified him as a resident.

He also added that his awful experience was reminiscent of that of a friend of his who was lynched by a mob last Sunday at Odongunyan, when the individual was suspected of being a Badoo cult member.

Badoo, which has been suspected of killing over 30 persons in the last 12 months, reports say Badoo cult gangs rub engine oil on their bodies whenever they go for ‘operations.’

The break people’s with grinding stone or pestle and the female victims are been raped.

On one of their operations, they took a baby, killing the parents and siblings .

They use white handkerchiefs to collect blood of their victims. News had it that they carry out their operations at mid-night, attacking families and killing everyone during each attack.

Odua Peoples Congress leader, Gani Adams, claimed that the cultists get paid between N250,000 and N1,000,000 for each blood-soaked handkerchief submitted to their sponsors.

Adams added that OPC was aware that “influential members of the society” were responsible for sponsoring the attacks.

The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has charged traditional rulers in Ikorodu to “wake up from their slumber by helping the government to nip in the bud the rising wave of kidnapping and the Badoo menace in the state.”
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