Badoo cult members sell handkerchief soaked in blood for N500,000

A joint taskforce of policemen, officials of the Department of State Security (DSS), members of the neighbourhood watch as well as local vigilantes have arrested 100 suspected members of the dreaded Badoo secrete cult.

Members of the gang who have been wreaking havoc on residents of the area for a while now are reputed to have murdered at least 30 people.

Rising from a joint security meeting held yesterday at Ipakodo police station, a member of the joint task force said those arrested had confessed being paid the sum of N500,000 for one handkerchief soaked in victims’ blood.

Top security sources reiterated that the suspects admitted selling handkerchiefs, which they use to clean the blood of their victims, for N500, 000 to some highly placed Nigerians.

The police, working with the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), the DSS, the Lagos State Taskforce, and Local Vigilante groups, raided the group’s black spots at Igbobo/ Bayeku, Ibeshe, Ijede and Imota, in an operation led by Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of operations, Edgal Imohinmi, and rounded up the 100 suspected members of the cult group.

Confirming the operation, Public Relation Officer of Lagos State Police Command, Olarinde Famous-Cole, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said about 40 police and RRS vehicles were used for the operation, adding that the exercise was part of the ongoing efforts to rid the state of the activities of the dreaded cult group.

He said: “We can confirm the arrest of 100 suspected members of the dreaded cult group, Badoo, and they are helping with ongoing investigation into the activities of the gang.