LAGOS—THE Lagos State Commissioner of Police Mr Israel Ajao yesterday appealed for calm over the mysterious murder of Cosmos Iwuji, three weeks ago at Oregun, Ikeja, by persons alleged to be members of Oro cult, saying investigation was still going on to unravel the circumstance surrounding the death.
Already, he said, some persons have been arrested in connection with the murder and are being quizzed by Policemen at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, vowing that the Police would not rest on their oars until the perpetrators of such dastardly act were brought to book.
Mr Ajao who made the appeal at the command’s headquarters , Ikeja while answering questions from newsmen, dismissed claims that the police was paying deaf ear to the incident.
According to him, “we are doing our best to ensure that those behind the murder are brought to book. It is a capital offence, one that attracts the worst punishment . Some arrest have been made already and we will at the end of it all brief members of the public of our findings. We are therefore appealing for calm as we are working hard to unravel the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of the young man”.
Sources however told vanguard that among the six suspects arrested by the Police from SCID is the priest of the Oro cult who claimed to have been far away from the scene of the incident on the day it happened.
Reports stated further that police would soon quiz members of a popular family said to have lost one of their parents on the day the incident occurred to ascertain if they had a hand in the mysterious death of the Igbo man. The arrest of the suspect Vanguard gathered, was made after the case was transferred from Alausa police station following protest by Igbos living in the Oregun-Alausa area after the dead body of the 28-year -old man was discovered hanging on the gate of a house at Fashade street in Oregun.
It was gathered that the deceased had earlier left his parents’ house around 10.30pm on the fateful day to accompany his bother and his wife who was in labour to a maternity home very close to their house. But his lifeless body was later found the following morning on the gate to a residential house . The situation however, sparked off protest from Igbo indigenes in the area who marched down to the governor’s house, Alausa, prevailing on governor Bola Tinubu to look into the matter.
