Another letter purportedly written by two cult groups, the Neo-Black Movement, also known as Aye, and the National Association of Airlords, also known as Eiye Confraternity, has surfaced on social media for the second time in a month.
They apologized and begged Oba Adewale Ajayi, the Akarigbo and supreme ruler of Remoland, for their previous transgressions in the letter.
The cult organizations also denied any role in the recent murder of Chief Abiodun Folarin, the Basogun of Itunsokun, Sagamu, a high chief of Akarigbo.
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The chief was killed by three unidentified gunmen on Monday, January 8, when they broke into a Toyota Camry.
After firing into the air to frighten the onlookers away, the gunmen pursued their target, killed him, and fled the scene empty-handed.
Because of the recent role the chief had been playing in clearing the town of the threat, some community members had insisted that the chief had been killed by cultists.
“We, the above-named confraternities wish to apologise again to the Akarigbo and paramount ruler of Remoland,” stated part of the letter titled “Letter of Apology,” which was addressed to the Akarigbo and other traditional rulers and chiefs in the Sagamu community.
“We have collectively composed this letter of apology to reassure our king and the Sagamu community at large that we are prepared to live in harmony and to follow the laws and norms of the Sagamu community.
“May we also use this medium to sincerely denounce the barbaric act and inform the paramount ruler and other traditional rulers in Remoland that we know nothing about the killing of Basogun.”
When the Baamofin of Remoland was asked if the palace of Akarigbo had received a letter of that kind.
When asked if the Baamofin of Remoland, Chief Bayo Onafuwa, had received a letter similar to this one, the palace of Akarigbo replied, “We saw it like everyone else.” The sincerity cannot be confirmed by us.
About two weeks ago, the two groups made their way onto social media with separate viral letters purportedly written in December, in which they begged for the paramount ruler’s pardon as well as the forgiveness of the entire Sagamu community for past cult killings.
The groups had pledged to work together with the community to put an end to any kind of violence and follow local laws.