By Evelyn Usman
We did not know there were policemen in the area. It was Temidayo who fired the gun, while I was hit by bullets fired by the policemen.”
This was the account of 45-year-old Tosin Agbeyangi, a caterer arrested after a failed reprisal attack by suspected cultists in the Mafoluku area of Oshodi, Lagos, ended in a gun battle with policemen on routine patrol.
Agbeyangi, who sustained a gunshot wound in the leg during the exchange of fire, told journalists that he and members of his group had gone to confront rival gang members they blamed for the killing of one of their associates, identified simply as Samuel, four days earlier.
He explained: “We were coming from a birthday party around Araromi in Oshodi when we decided to go and check our rival gang members from Araromi Orile, who usually stayed in front of Koko Zaria’s house. There were about five or six of us. Some of them were from Mushin, while only three of us were from Oshodi.
