 Shops, vehicles and houses have been raised in Mushi, a densely populated area of Lagos, Nigeria's economic capital in what is believed to be an arson. Witnesses accuse courtes of being behind the attack, as Plus TV Africa's Messi Eberpo reports. It's a sad day on a Kimbo day to know last streets of Mushi. A Lagos suburb. Vehicles were vandalized a day before. Houses were boggled and shops raised by fire. Vase caused agony and slowed down in activities in the usually bustling community. Eye witnesses explained what happened. We just look at our shop, run away. Before we come back this morning, they don't want everything, no. I just buy new generator. Four freezers, four dis-freezers are there inside. And market foods, and yesterday I just go by market. A drum of Karusin, see the drum, yeah. They throw away the drum and they put the Karusin inside the gutter. And they put fire inside the shop. We don't know them, no. We don't follow them, fire too. Some members of the community are unsure of who the attackers are, but all are disappointing to an undisclosed cult group. We heard that these cult boys are, they were fighting themselves again, two factions anyway. They came all the way from Shiloh Street, they crossed the railway line down to Thimoala, down to Akibode, down to Huala Teju. And it happened around after 11 yesterday. Now, the problem is that all these boys are caught, they are caught. They are not in our community there. Then we are again leaving, we don't know. They will just come from this side and this side, they will come, just fight, destroy this side, destroy this side. And we don't know them. Police officers have been here for an on-sport assessment and investigation, and an official of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA says nobody was killed. We are so sure that a lot of, about 20 vehicles was burnt, but so far so good. We are trying to ascertain the number of casualties on ground, but for now we can't say now because there's no loss of life anyway. Now, what is supposed to be like a beautiful morning for members of the Thimoala community as well as the Akibode community turns out to be a very, very sad one. As we have been able to gather, it's been reported that there's a clash that happened between unidentified groups which resulted to the vandalization of vehicles, destructions of properties amongst others. However, no life has been recorded to have been lost. Merci for Plus TV Africa. Well, joining us on the news tonight is the editor-in-chief of Nigeria Security Digest, Chidi Omeje. Hello, Mr. Omeje. Hello. Good evening. Good evening. Glad you could join us. What do you make of people suddenly seeing armed youths destroy their homes, shops, and cars? Pardon? I can't get you clear yet. Yeah. How do you make, you know, what do you make of the situation where people suddenly wake up in the morning and find their houses, their vehicles, their shops destroyed by armed youths? How did it hit you when you heard it? Yeah, I mean, these are signs of a very distressed society. Every nook and cranny of this country, you hear on daily basis, tackling stories of crimes and criminalities that you get to wonder if anybody is actually in charge. If you really want to go to the root of all this, you will find a bit of, you know, bad governance and eating justice and a man of clear character of the society. You see, I trust that you have these posts of unemployed youths, hungry folks, organized society. You are bound to see this happen on daily basis. Let us be lucky that I'm just battling with youngsters and cultists and all that. But what about areas that are confronted with, you know, hot core terrorism and insurgency and budgetary? This is what we're going through in the country. I think it's called for leadership. It calls for alternative thoughts on part of everybody in this country to see how we can rein in on people who really want to take lives with their hands and who have lost it, who have moved with that law and order. Okay. From that report by Mercy, some of the residents who were interviewed blamed on cultists. How deep do you think cultism is in Nigeria today? Are you talking about cultism? Mm-hmm. Yeah, cultism is now a very popular phenomenon in this country. From the university campuses, to secondary schools, to streets. So, you know, people, religious organizations, you see people having, you know, some kind of cultism that are running that society. So, it's really a society that is, like I said earlier, that is stressed. You know, you see people trying to find a way to, you know, to ventulate and crime, ventulate in all manner of ways that you find astounding. Cultism, as a phenomenon, has come to this country because we've not been able to, you know, think on it. We've not been able to see the danger in it. You know, you want to dance around it. You want to emphasize the concept of cultism, probably because the guys who brought that phenomenon are our darling, you know, so people who we cannot scratch. But of course, you and I know that this cultism is a cancer in our society. Our kids have been destroyed on daily basis because of this kind of lifestyle. How can, how do you propose security agencies and the communities check cultism and this kind of incidences which you've seen? Yeah, the only way I can check it is through intelligence. You have to find, people have to say something when they see something. We have to dissuade people from that kind of thing. And of course, don't forget that family unit plays even a much more effective role in, you know, getting people to understand that there are certain lifestyle that are not, you know, acceptable. Religious organizations, churches and mosques still be able to devote more time to remind our youngsters that cultism is not the way to go. Cultism destroys the individual, destroys society. There's no future in cultism. And how to find a way to stop it out in our society because it's not complementary at all. It's destructive. Do you find it instructive that this whole thing happened throughout the night? Nobody was apprehended. Nothing, it just happened and they woke up unfounded. Meaning the whole place was totally very, very vulnerable and unprotected in any way possible. It's amazing because it doesn't appear that our security agencies are giving up almost, I don't know whether they are stressed to the point that there's stuff like that happening over night and nobody was able to come out to stop them. And you have the army, you have the police, you have the civil defense, you have the secret police and all that sort. And such people had time and space to operate and do all they had done. And they were not stopped. Look, this is not society, not society grows in such manner. So somebody should be questioned, what happened to the police commissioner in that state? That's the police commissioner. They have to tell us exactly where his men were, what places are like that happening. We can just, you know, every day we keep closing our eyes and allow them to do whatever they want to do. And every day they will tell them something. So they have to work for us, that's how we hire them. And train them and equip them. Well, thank you so much, Mr. Chidi, our major editor-in-chief, Nigeria Security Digest. Thank you so much for your time and insight. Thank you for the opportunity, I appreciate that.