Chief in France of a Nigerian criminal organization sentenced to ten years in prison

Isi Omoijiade, alias “dad zion”, was at the head of Supreme Eiye Confraternity, an international group of Mafieux type having the high hand on pimping networks.

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On the light side, Isi Omoijiade was a maintenance agent in a large cleaning company in Lyon, a father accompanying his children at school. On the shadow side, this 43-year-old Nigerian was “dad zion”, the Ibaka of Supreme Eiye Confraternity (Sec), the chief in France of this student brotherhood of the University of Ibadan (southwest Nigeria), which has become a Powerful criminal organization that extends in Europe. The Marseille Criminal Court sentenced him, Thursday, October 27, to ten years in prison, the maximum penalty incurred for trafficking in human beings and aggravated pimps, and kept it in detention.

The French courts have already judged several cases of exploitation of young Nigerians subject to the animist rite of the “juju” (sort of voodoo ceremony which links them to a “mama”), then sent to Europe, with the promise of A job of hairdresser or with children, to be actually enslaved to prostitution. On the other hand, it is rare to see the judges a representative of one of these traditional secret societies or Nigerian student confraternities, transformed into real international criminal groups of the mafia type, in front of the judges. Isi Omoijiade defends himself having held this role of untouchable of a secret society: “I have never held the post of Ibaka in Europe, I was in Nigeria when I was young, but it is of the past, “he said.

He had been clearly designated in this role of “godfather” by Donatus Samson, alias “Donald”, who, within the Lyon network tried in Marseille, organized prostitution in parked vans. In police custody, in June 2018, “Donald” presents “Papa Zion” as the “supreme chief of the dry”. “It is the boss of prostitution, transport of girls, drugs. It is he who must respond or speak in the name of confraternity. All he says, we must do it, is like For you, he said to the policeman who asked him, with Emmanuel Macron. “

In front of the court, evoking translation problems, Donatus Samson returned to his statements, in which he detailed the funding of the organization or the enemies of other brotherhoods, such as the Aye of Black Ax, the Manfight and the Vikings.

“The sect is very fear”

In Yoruba language, Eiye means “bird”, and the hierarchy of this criminal sect draws from this zoonymy to define the statutes: Grand Ibaka, ostrich, Rossignol, Eagle, Pivert … Intelligence and security, ” Caches of arms “, the” fights “, in his words,” Donald “explains to investigators the initiation rites to become a member:” We take you somewhere isolated, we hit you, we deprive you of eating. Then ” Papa Zion “explains the regulation.” An intelligence note from the Central Office for the Repression of the Trading of Human beings adds that the new member must cut a vein and let his blood flow in a cut whose content will be mixed – and drunk – with the blood of others present.

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