Reported by: Ijeoma G | Edited by: Oravbiere Osayomore Promise.
For Samson, it should have been an ordinary Tuesday. The mechanic, who ran his workshop around Warike Estate in Abijo, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, received a request to repair a Mercedes-Benz. He left his workshop to attend to the supposed customer. He never returned. The incident happened on September 15, 2026, and by the time his family realised he was missing, it was already too late. His body was later found in a bush, hacked to death.
The Lagos State Police Command confirmed the killing. The Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Adebisi, said the family reported that Samson's whereabouts were unknown, prompting detectives to visit his apartment and begin tracing his movements. "Efforts are ongoing to track Samson's mobile phone and locate him. The case remains under investigation," Adebisi said. But the grim discovery of his body in the bush confirmed the worst fears of his family and colleagues.
The circumstances surrounding Samson's death point to something far more sinister than a robbery gone wrong. An anti-cultism advocacy platform, in a post seen by journalists, alleged that the killing was a form of retaliation. According to the platform, Samson was targeted over the September 9 killing of an Eiye member named Ola Sheu. Sheu was reportedly killed by suspected members of the Neo-Black Movement, also known as Black Axe or NBM, around Adeba Bus Stop in Lakowe, Ibeju-Lekki. The platform claimed that Sheu's alleged cult identity was not widely known until a photograph of him wearing an Aye cult beret during his graduation was posted online to celebrate his birthday. That photograph, the platform said, exposed his affiliation to rival cultists, who subsequently targeted him.
If the allegation is true, Samson's death was not random. He was collateral in a war he may not have even been part of. The police have not established the cult rivalry as the confirmed motive, but the pattern fits. Ibeju-Lekki has become a flashpoint for cult clashes in recent months, with rival groups using social media to identify and target each other. The killing of Ola Sheu on September 9 was followed six days later by the killing of Samson, a man whose only connection to the conflict appears to be his profession. He was a mechanic. He went to fix a car. He was hacked to death.
The mechanic's death has raised urgent questions about the safety of artisans and small business owners in Lagos, who often travel to isolated locations to provide services without any protection. It has also renewed concerns about the growing boldness of cult groups in the state, who appear to operate with relative impunity despite repeated police crackdowns. The Lagos State Police Command has promised a thorough investigation, but for Samson's family, the answers will come too late. He left his workshop on a Tuesday afternoon to fix a Mercedes-Benz. He was found in a bush, killed by men who used a car repair job as bait.
The police are tracking his phone, interviewing witnesses, and attempting to piece together the final hours of his life. They are looking for the person who arranged the repair job, the people who took him into the bush, and the motive that drove them to kill a man whose only crime was showing up to work. As the investigation continues, the people of Ibeju-Lekki are left to grapple with a chilling reality: in a community where cult rivalries are settled with machetes, even a simple job request can be a death sentence.
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