2 residents of Ogun state have been killed by Vigilante group

Two men faced their untimely death after being miss-taken as armed robbers in Ogun State.

The deceased, Akeem Usman, 32, and 29-year-old Raji Moruf, resided at Sorinola Avenue, Oriyanrin, Abeokuta before the incident.

Thirty-year-old Abayomi Awoyejo, who claimed to have survived the incident, said that the vigilante service men stormed the victims’ resident at midnight on Saturday and shot them dead.


Awoyejo said, “I was playing my palm-top CD in the sitting room when I dozed off. At about 12am, one of the people in the house, Lateef, woke me to alert me of the presence of robbers around.

“We ran helter-skelter to get the key to lock the door. We eventually located the key and we attempted to open the gate.’’

He said that as they were about to open the gate, they saw somebody’s shadow and before they couldask questions, a shot fired from a nearby building hit Moruf.

“Moruf was screaming that he had been hit by a bullet. We were struggling to provide first aid to him. Some of us were making telephone calls to seek help; suddenly some VSO stormed our sitting room. We told them that we were not armed robbers, but they did not listen.

Awoyejo said, ‘’One of us who attempted to challenge them was hit with the butt of their gun. There was confusion in the house when one of them shot Akeem (Usman) at close range.”

Awoyejo said both Usman and Moruf who had been shot by the VSO men were left to bleed to death since they could not get first aid treatment.

“I watch helplessly as Usman and Moruf bled to death even though I was begging them that we were no robbers.”

The Commander of the vigilante service in the state, Major Femi Bisiriyu (retd) described the incident as a case of mistaken identity.

May their souls rest in peace.