Lagos seals Badoo kingpin’s properties

Lagos State Government has sealed off a petrol filling station,
a hotel and event centre belonging to a suspected Badoo cult
kingpin, Alhaji Alaka Abayomi Kamal, for violating the state’s
urban and regional planning law of 2010.

The structures, situated along Ijebu-Ode-Itoikin road in Sabo
area of Ikorodu were sealed on Wednesday.

Alaka, who is believed to be the ring leader of the Badoo cult
group, was declared wanted by the police on December 22, 2017 in
connection with several well-orchestrated killings and nefarious
activities of the group in Ikorodu and Epe areas of the state.

In a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information
and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, the government said the decision
to seal off the structures was in pursuant to Section 60 of the
said Law.

The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Imohimi Edgal, on
Tuesday, paraded a suspected Badoo kingpin arrested in Ikorodu area
of the state.

The suspect confessed to the killings and took police to their
shrine in Imosan, a suburb of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, where the
group’s chief herbalist, Fatai Adebayo, was arrested.

Adebayo, who is popularly known as Alese, was said to specialize
in administering oath on Badoo members before they go for any
operation.

Ayorinde said: “The Lagos State Government is joining the
Nigerian police in asking the said Alaka to come out of hiding and
submit himself to the law in his own interest.

“The state government has also enjoined the police to offer the
public a reward for any useful information on the owner of the
Alaka Filling Station, Hotel and Event Centre in Ikorodu.

“The government is once again asking its citizens to go about
their businesses without fear. We will leave no stone unturned in
keeping the state safe in 2018.”

Lagos State Government has sealed off a petrol filling station,
a hotel and event centre belonging to a suspected Badoo cult
kingpin, Alhaji Alaka Abayomi Kamal, for violating the state’s
urban and regional planning law of 2010.

The structures, situated along Ijebu-Ode-Itoikin road in Sabo
area of Ikorodu were sealed on Wednesday.

Alaka, who is believed to be the ring leader of the Badoo cult
group, was declared wanted by the police on December 22, 2017 in
connection with several well-orchestrated killings and nefarious
activities of the group in Ikorodu and Epe areas of the state.

In a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information
and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, the government said the decision
to seal off the structures was in pursuant to Section 60 of the
said Law.

The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Imohimi Edgal, on
Tuesday, paraded a suspected Badoo kingpin arrested in Ikorodu area
of the state.

The suspect confessed to the killings and took police to their
shrine in Imosan, a suburb of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, where the
group’s chief herbalist, Fatai Adebayo, was arrested.

Adebayo, who is popularly known as Alese, was said to specialize
in administering oath on Badoo members before they go for any
operation.

Ayorinde said: “The Lagos State Government is joining the
Nigerian police in asking the said Alaka to come out of hiding and
submit himself to the law in his own interest.

“The state government has also enjoined the police to offer the
public a reward for any useful information on the owner of the
Alaka Filling Station, Hotel and Event Centre in Ikorodu.

“The government is once again asking its citizens to go about
their businesses without fear. We will leave no stone unturned in
keeping the state safe in 2018.”