‘People Who Lynched My Brother Knew Him’ – Sister Of MC Mistaken For Badoo Member

Saturday, July 1, was the day residents of Ikorodu, Lagos, carried out jungle justice on a Master of Ceremony, Chinedu Paul aka Think 2ice after he was wrongly identified as a member of dreaded cult group, Badoo.

The death of the family’s eldest son has thrown his family into sorrow as he had been the family’s pillar and fortress since the loss of his father 14 years ago.

The 26-year-old Abia native who was a National Diploma holder in Accountancy from the Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu, had woken up that fateful Saturday not knowing what danger lay ahead of him.

PUNCH reports that apart from supporting his three siblings – Elizabeth, Sunday and Ruth with the little money he made, he also looked after their mother, Celestina, a petty trader, from the lean income as well. His fiancée, Esther – a dependable ally – also tasted from his goodwill as well. Such was the 26-year-old’s large heart. But by 11:50pm, everything changed. 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.

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“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,” Elizabeth, younger sibling of the late comedian, told our correspondent during an encounter earlier in the week. “Shola, the rewire, used to be our neighbour here at Ikorodu before he moved to FESTAC after he got married in 2010,” she continued. “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,” she said as her emotions threatened to overwhelm her.

Heartbroken at the sight of the charred remains of their beloved Paul, Elizabeth and the rest of the family still find it hard to believe that the person, who had played the role of father to them these past 14 years was indeed no more.

“We all could have been dead by now if not for divine intervention,” Elizabeth said with a firm voice. “I, my mother, younger sister and Paul’s girlfriend could all have been killed by the same guys after they identified us to be his relatives. Immediately they saw a small plastic containing gear oil in the boot of the car that conveyed us to the spot where the three of them were burnt, the guys started shouting Badoo family. They shoved and pushed us about for several minutes and were going to descend heavily on us when one man ordered them to leave us, that if we were indeed Badoo members, we couldn’t have had the guts to come to that place. That was how we escaped being lynched that morning.

‘How I Narrowly Escaped Being Lynched After I Was Mistaken For Badoo Member’ – Ikorodu Resident

“Paul was an easy-going person who would never hurt anyone. He was the only one we looked up to for our needs since our father died 14 years ago. He didn’t deserve to die in such a pathetic manner,” she added.

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