Gruesome: How suspected cultists gunned down LASPOTECH final year student

A tragic event has shocked the residents of
New Balogun street in Somolu, Lagos State as
a young man resident on the street was shot
dead by suspected cultists.

Ibrahim Oluwaseun, 26, a final year student
of Lagos State Polytechnic was gunned down
by the yet unidentified assailants at his
parents home in Somolu.

According to reports, Ibrahim was with his
mother outside their home at about 9pm when
about 7 gunmen invaded the area and shot
him.

Nigerian Eye reports:

An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, said:
"They were seven in number; they came to the
area fully armed.

All those guys were strangers to us but have been coming to the area for some time now. Nobody knew exactly what they were up to.

That night, they confronted the boys in the
area with guns and immediately people saw
them, they ran for their lives.

They shot at Oluwaseun who was with his mum
outside their house. It wasn't as if
Oluwaseun was involved in any fight. He fell
into the gutter immediately he was shot,
just as everybody tried running for cover."
PUNCH Metro gathered that in the ensuing
confusion, neither of Oluwaseun's neighbours
nor relatives, witnessed his fall into the
gutter.

It wasn't until after the confusion
had subsided that residents allegedly
observed that Oluwaseun was nowhere to be
found.

Another source told PUNCH Metro that the
Divisional Police Officer, Somolu Station,
responding to a distress call on the
shooting, drafted some patrol teams to the
area.

He said, "Two patrol vehicles were sent to
the area but even while the police patrolled
the streets, no one noticed that Oluwaseun
was in the gutter. Perhaps he might have
survived the shooting if he had been
discovered on time."

Oluwaseun was said to have been discovered,
few minutes after the shooting; by then, he
was already dead. His corpse was said to
have been recovered from the gutter by the
police and taken to the Gbagada General
Hospital, where he was confirmed dead.

When our correspondent visited the scene a
day after the incident, there was an uneasy
calm on the street; shops were under lock
and key.

While a candlelight procession was held in
the deceased's honour on Saturday, there
were fears among residents of more attacks.
At the Oluwaseuns' residence, visitors
poured in to condole with the deceased's
family and pay tribute to his memory.

His distraught mother was said to be unavailable for comments.

The deceased, a student of Business
Administration, was said to have been
preparing to defend his final year project
this week when he was killed on Friday
night.

However, a close friend of the family,
Alhaja Modupeola Kazeem, described Oluwaseun
as gentle and an easygoing young man.
Kazeem said, "I was shocked on hearing the
news because I am like a second mother to
him. I was one of the people who brought him
up; he was a cheerful person who never made
trouble. We were all surprised how those
guys just came and shot at him without any
provocation. Ibrahim was just a victim; he
was never part of any bad group."

She added that Oluwaseun had been buried on
Saturday in accordance with Muslim rites.
The Deputy Police Public Relations Officer,
Damasus Ozoani, confirmed the incident to
our reporter on the telephone.

He said,

There was indeed an incident on Friday
night in which some suspected cultists shot
one Oluwaseun in Somolu. Police immediately
swung into action. They saw him lying down
and he was rushed to the hospital where he
died. We are investigating the case to
ensure we bring the culprits to book."

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