An active police alert is being sent out to healthy, fleshy or plump male persons visiting some highbrow areas in Lagos, warning those looking for jobs or an apartment among them might be at risk of being anally raped by a cult that is fixated on finding people like them. 

The upscale neighbourhoods where the state police commissioner Adegoke Fayoade wants this demography to be careful are Lekki, Ikoyi and Banana Island. This is where lots of startups in tech and real estate are building their base although a victim’s experience has shown that not all that glitters will be gold.

Investigations into the activities of the syndicate of homosexuals behind the obscenity began after the relation of a Nigeria Police Force officer was preyed on in one of the areas. That led Commissioner Fayoade to unleash the Special Crack Squad he inaugurated in February to tackle specialised crimes.

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From [the] information gathered, says the state police chief, these people have been in existence years before I assumed office as CP in Lagos.

I heard that they even have a club. You will be shocked that a practising lawyer was among those arrested and they confessed that they had nothing to do with women or thin men, only healthy men that they go after.

Even in the cell, my men caught the lawyer still having anal sex with one of the suspects [whom] he referred to as his girlfriend. We have launched a manhunt for other members. We will parade these ones in our custody before the press.

A deteriorating security situation exists in Lagos, although officials are doing their best to confront it. In 2023, there were rampant movements of one-chance-robbers who would strip Lagosians of money, pricey hardware like phones or any computing device and then bludgeon them with a weapon or sometimes throw the victims off a bus in transit.

This year has not been better because living in the megacity now demands extraordinary caution by the elderly, children, women, and especially men as the streak of anal rape has suggested. And so with the evolving scenario, adds Commissioner Adegoke Fayoade in The Guardian’s interview published today, I would like to advise members of the public, especially those seeking employment or wanting good accommodations, to be wary of such vacancies.

They should let their friends or relatives know where they are going so that after some time, they can begin to make a move to contact them or give the address of the advertised vacancy to the police.