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post your comment... Ogun vigilante service kill two residents JULY 8, 2013  BY FUNMI OJUROYE, LAGOS Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun | credits: File copy Officials of the Vigilante Service of Ogun State have killed two persons they allegedly mistook for armed robbers in Abeokuta, the state capital. The deceased, Akeem Usman, 32, and 29-year-old Raji Moruf, resided at Sorinola Avenue, Oriyanrin, Abeokuta before the incident. Thirty-year-old Abayomi Awoyejo, who claimed to have survived the incident, said that the vigilante service men stormed the victims’ resident at midnight on Saturday and shot them dead. Our correspondent however gathered that the vigilante men were responding to a distress call by a resident who had raised the alarm against the presence of alleged hoodlums in the area. Awoyejo said, “I was playing my palm-top CD in the sitting room when I dozed off. At about 12am, one of the people in the house, Lateef, woke me to alert me of the pre...