No fewer than three persons were critically injured while others sustained various degrees of injury as members of a cult group popularly called Eluku unleashed terror on a mosque and Muslim worshippers in Iperu, a town in the Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State.

The attackers unleashed terror on a popular mosque, Zumuratul Mu’min Mosque in Amororo area of the town with vehicles and houses around the mosque destroyed.

They also poured boiling vegetable oil on three members of the mosque, two of which were rushed to Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), on their way back from Iperu police headquarters, where they had gone to report the case.

Iperu is the hometown of the Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun.

It was gathered that the attack happened on Tuesday while they were preparing for sunset prayer, Magrib.

It was gathered that the Eluku cult which is normally observed at the dead of the night stormed the community few minutes after 6 pm on the faithful day during the burial of one of their leaders identified as Chief Deji Dalinton.

One of the victims, Nurein AbdRaheem, who had his stomach, legs, hands and back burnt from the hot vegetable oil poured on him, said the three of them were on their way back from the police station when the cultists attacked them and poured boiling vegetable oil from a bean cake seller on them.

He said the two of them were rejected by two hospitals before they were later referred to OOUTH where they are receiving treatment.

Another victim of the attack, Alhaji Oremuyiwa Shakirullah, narrated how his own car was destroyed where it was packed not far from another mosque.

Oremuyiwa who is the Imam of Ajise Central Mosque was at an Arabic school in Abanise mosque in Oke Maro when the attackers went on rampage and destroyed his car.

“I was in the mosque when information reached me, I quickly released the students, I was the only one who prayed in the mosque because people couldn’t come out.

“Two other members later joined me in the mosque and we had to lock ourselves up in the mosque to pray the late-night prayer, but I was amazed to see my car destroyed where it was packed not far from the mosque, many houses were also destroyed,” he said.

The Chief Imam of Iperuland, Alhaji Fawora Fasasi, told our correspondent that the major concern of the Muslim community for now, is the health of the injured victims.

The reaction of the Police Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who was contacted on the incident, was being awaited as at the time of filing this report.

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