30-Year-Old Cult Leader Abducted By Members For Quitting

A group of suspected cultists have abducted a former leader of the group, Godwin Victor, aka Sangba, in the Akoka area of Lagos State. Family members reveal that Sangba was kidnapped by cultists, who were his friends and members of the gang he once led. The gang members were said to have been displeased with his decision to quit the group and embrace normal life.

Sangba reportedly left the group due to constant harassment by the police and for safety concerns. The 30-year-old Akwa Ibom indigene had recently returned to the community from Port Harcourt, when he was abducted on Friday.

When news men visited his residence on Solanke Street, they met his family members who said efforts to find him had proved abortive, just as his telephone numbers had been switched off. His wife, Eniola, said her husband had returned from Port Harcourt where he relocated to due to threats to his life. 

She said, “My husband is very popular in this community. Because of that, whenever there was a fight involving his friends and people’s property were destroyed, the police would arrest him. “He became unhappy with the bad name they were giving him, and he called them and said he wanted to quit street fighting. He met other cult groups and appealed to them to embrace peace and lay down their weapons.”

She said the groups agreed to a truce in December last year and sanity returned to the area. But some of Sangba’s friends, who were opposed to the development, attacked him. Eniola said one of her husband’s friends shot him at a party in April, adding that he narrowly escaped and from that time, he stopped coming to the house and started lodging in a hotel nearby.

Godwin's disappearance is currently being investigated by the police.