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When the news of Paul Chinedu’s gory murder got to his family, they didn’t believe till they confirmed the sad news. Chinedu had woken up that Saturday not knowing what peril lay ahead of him.
The promising entertainer had dreams and aspirations just like everyone but was murdered by Vigilantes who mistook him and those who accompanied him, for members of the dreaded Baddo cult .
Punch reports that Paul, in company with two others – Shola, a rewire, and Sunday, a mechanic – were mistaken to be members of dreaded killer-cult group, Badoo, as they made for the spot where his newly-acquired second-hand car had broken down the previous day.
He had gone to pick it up from the painter’s shop when suddenly around Odogunyan bus-stop, the vehicle broke down. The young man will never live to ride in the car.
“Paul had been in the house throughout that Saturday until about 10:00pm when he left for Ikorodu Garage to wait for the mechanic and rewire who were coming all the way from FESTAC . Shola, the rewire, used to be our neighbour here at Ikorodu before he moved to FESTAC after he got married in 2010.He is a specialist in Honda cars and that was why my brother begged him to come and help fix his vehicle. If not for the traffic they encountered along the way, they would have arrived Ikorodu earlier to tow the car with the SUV Shola brought from FESTAC.
“But before they could get to where Paul’s car was parked, they were stopped by some guys on the road. One of the guys who stopped them told the others that he knew my brother and that they should be allowed to go. The others refused and proceeded to searching the vehicle. They saw the chain Shola wanted to use to tow the vehicle and brake oil in the boot of the SUV. Immediately the guys saw these, they started shouting Badoo.
“Even though the other one said he knew my brother well in the area, which another person among them also confirmed, they went ahead to kill the three of them by burning them alive. By the time we got there by 3:00am after receiving a call from somebody who witnessed the scene, it was too late. They had been burnt already,” Elizabeth a younger sibling of the late comedian revealed sobbing.
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