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  • 10 arrested for cultism in Ogun

    The Ogun State Police Command has arrested 10 suspects who allegedly partook in cult related activities in Mowe, Ogun State, on Tuesday.

    The police said the suspects, nine men and a woman, were arrested in various locations in Mowe following a violent cult clash between two rival groups.

    According to the statement signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, the groups unleash mayhem in the area.

    He said: “They vandalised vehicles and made life uncomfortable for innocent residents of the area. Distress calls were made to the Area Commander, Sagamu and Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Mowe.

    “Consequently, policemen were swiftly deployed to the scene and repelled the assailants. In the process, 10 among the hoodlums were arrested including a female member who investigation revealed is the person whose house they gathered to hold meeting and strategised on how to carry out the attack. The Area Commander, Sagamu, ACP Issa Gremma, who personally led the operation, is still on ground monitoring the situation.”

    Oyeyemi said the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (CIID) and warned that violent crime would not have a place in the state.

    “He appealed to parents to warn their children to desist from any criminal act as the Command is all out to deal decisively with anybody caught perpetrating acts of criminality.

    “He advised residents to go about their normal businesses as the police will deploy everything in its arsenal to ensure their safety all the time,” Oyeyemi added.

     

  • One feared dead in Ogun cult clash

    … 17 suspects arrested

    One person was feared dead and several others injured as cult war between people suspected to be members of the Eiye Confraternity and rival Aiye confraternity entered its third day on Wednesday.

    Three communities in Ijebu Igbo, Ijebu North local government area of the state, namely Ojowo, Oke – Sopen and Atikori, have been turned to theatre of war by Eiye and Aiye members since Monday.

    The Nation gathered that the rival groups used guns, axes and other dangerous weapons on each other.

    An eyewitness told our correspondent that one person suspected to be a cultist was shot dead on Wednesday morning, while others were wounded when the feuding Eiye and Aiye members clashed in Ojowo area of Ijebu Igbo.

    The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said there were clashes between Eiye and Aiye members in Ijebu – Igbo on Tuesday but denied reports that some people have been killed in the incidents.

    Abimbola, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said 17 suspects have been arrested by police in connection with the clashes.

     

     

  • Four suspected cultists arrested on initiation ground

    Four suspected cultists arrested on initiation ground

    The police in Ogun on Tuesday apprehended four suspected cultists at Olorunwa in Ota, during initiation rituals.
    Adeleke Busayo 19, Adetunji Joshua, 25, Adeyemi Olusegun, 19, and Usman Quyum, 18 were being initiated into HAOI PYRATE Confraternity when the police clamped down on them.

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    Some of the suspects

    Acting on a tip-off, detectives led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Onipanu, Baba Maiyaki, a Chief Superintendent (CSP), caught all four new converts, but their leader identified as Bambo was said to have fled.
    Confirming the arrest, the command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) said the suspects have made useful confessions, adding that the case has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department  (SCIID) Eleweran.
    He said that Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu has ordered that the suspects be charged to court at the conclusion of the investigation.

     

  • Fake policeman arrested in Ogun

    A fake policeman who allegedly extorts people at Oke Oro area of Ogun State has been arrested by men of the state police command.

    Odiakaose Anene, a resident of Irapada Street, Matogun, was arrested by a patrol team while driving a Honda car marked BW891LSR.

    He was said to have identified himself as a policeman and presented a Police Constable Warrant Card to back up his claim.

    But in the course of interrogation, the policemen discovered that he was an impostor.

    Anene’s house was searched and police uniform, two police trousers, one police beret with crest and police training manual were found.

    The Ogun command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said the suspect would be arraigned in court at the end of investigation.