Badoo killings: Estate agents dupe fleeing Ikorodu victims of N50m
…2 Badoo suspects set ablaze in Ogun
By Evelyn Usman & Daud Olatunji
ABOUT 150 residents seeking accommodations at Iponri, Orile and Aguda, Surelere areas of Lagos, after fleeing from Ikorodu over fears of falling victims of Badoo members’ rampage, have been defrauded by estate agents to the tune of N50 million.
This is just like their Ikorodu counterparts in Lagos, a mob, yesterday, set two suspected members of Badoo gang ablaze at Ogijo, Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State.
One of the suspects, set ablaze at Magbo-Ogijo, was reportedly caught with a human skull, while the second victim was burnt few kilometres away from the scene of the first incident.
Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, who was going to a town hall meeting in Ogijo, was forced to stop at the scene of the second incident, causing the mob to disperse. He alighted from his vehicle and ordered his men to pick the charred remains of the victim.
N50m rent money
Meanwhile, it was double tragedy for 150 residents of Ikorodu, who fled their abodes over fear of falling victims of Badoo cult, as they were allegedly defrauded of money paid as rent for accommodations at Iponri, Orile and Aguda, Surelere areas of Lagos.
At press time, the victims, comprising 100 families among them widows and their children, as well as bachelors and spinsters, were still at loss on what to do.
Some of them reportedly left their Ikorodu abodes to squat with relatives and friends, when the spate of killings by Badoo cult became unbearable.
A suspect, identified as Adeyemi, has been arrested by policemen attached to the Force Criminal Investigation Depart-ment, FCID, Alagbon, Lagos.
Vanguard gathered that over 200 prospective tenants were allegedly defrauded by the suspect, out of which 150 were fleeing Ikorodu residents. N50 million was reportedly collected from the prospective tenants.
Some of the victims claimed to have paid N240,000 for a room and parlour self-contained.
However, trouble started at the point of moving in, as some of them discovered that the apartments were already occupied by tenants, who claimed to have also paid.
Others discovered that keys of same apartments they paid for were given to over five tenants.
Lamentations
In an encounter with the victims, who stormed a non-governmental organisation, NGO’s office at Alaka Estate, Iponri, to lay their complaints, they lamented that they were stranded, as they had already moved their property out of Ikorodu and their relatives’ homes.
One of them, who gave her name as Mrs Johnson, said: “I fled my house in Ikorodu following incessant attacks from Badoo. An agent, who I contacted to help me get a place, took me to a house undergoing renovation at Mashalasi Street, Iponri.
“I saw a woman, Mrs Fumilayo, and one other man called JJ. Mrs. Fumilayo told me that she and her husband were the developers renovating the house. My agent and I inquired about a mini flat and she said it was N250,000 for one year.
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