Police takes Badoo’s high priest into custody, destroys shrine

Fatai Adebayo, a suspected high priest of the deadly cult group, Badoo has been arrested.

The 34-year-old who was fetched out from his shrine at 38, Ayegbami Quarters, Odogbolu Local Government area of Ogun state, was said to have been captured sequel to the confessions of some arrested Badoo members who revealed to the Lagos Police Command that the shrine was their spiritual base for oaths taking and diabolic backing before the commencement of each of their gruesome operations.

Leading a team of security operatives such as the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Rapid Response Squad, Lagos Vigilante and the Lagos Task Force, the Commissioner of Police, Edgal Omoimi said the discovery was part of the success made in nipping criminal groups in the bud. The spearhead of the ritualist group was also arrested over the weekend during a duel to stop his escape.

The CP said: “Over the weekend, we had far-reaching achievements in the fight against these killers in Ikorodu, otherwise called Badoo. Their kingpin has been arrested as he tried to make an escape on water. One of the suspects confessed that before they go for any killing, the head of the group brings them to this man to carry out oaths and the piece of stone they use for their killings. He is an accomplice before the facts and we are definitely placing him on an arrest.”

After intimating the immediate High Chief of Imosan village, Chief Tajudeen Muyili who said: “For me, I don’t support nonsense. So, I give you the permission to carry on,” the commissioner went on to demolish the shrine.

However, Adebayo’s mother, Toyin Ogunyemi dismissed the allegations of aiding and abetting ritual killings.

Mrs Ogunyemi stressed that her son only performs healing rites for those in need. She said he has been a renowned herbalist without blemish.

According to her, the rocks found around the shrine were for mashing solutions.

Her words; “My son does not perform evil medicines. People only come to him for healing solutions. He doesn’t do money ritual except for prayers for success. Before God and Man, he is not a robber or a killer.”