Lockdown: Ogun Police Arrest 19 Cultists Terrorising Different Communities

Men of Ogun State Police Command has arrested nineteen suspected cultists on rampage terrorising residents of Joju, Owode Ijako, Ijoko, Agbado, Ifo and other adjoining communities in Ogun State.

Since the lockdown, residents of the areas were said to have been leaving in fear and running helter-skelter to avoid being killed by rival cult groups, who have turned the area into their battlefield with incessant attacks on the residents.

The hoodlums, it was learnt, have been terrorising the areas connecting Ifo and Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government areas of the State.

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It was said that the people of the area have been crying out to the police as suspected hoodlums reportedly invaded homes to rob residents of their money and belongings.

Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson had deployed policemen to the areas and arrested nineteen suspected cultists.

The command Spokesperson, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi who confirmed the arrest at different locations said that “five of the suspects were arrested at Ijako; one of them was arrested at Winners with a locally made gun; three were arrested in Araromi area of Agbado with face masks, while ten others were picked up at various locations in Ifo, kajola and Ososun areas by SARS operatives.

The crisis was said to have started as a result of the supremacy battle between two rival cult groups, metamorphosing into robbery and other criminal activities.

Oyeyemi gave identities of those arrested as “Ekunoye lucky, m’ 22, Badmus Sodiq, m’ 27, Showumi Femi, m’ 21, Adeagbo Adewumi, m’ 22 and Agboola Femi m’ 21 in Ijako area; Adekunle Okeoye m’ 23 at Winners church area; Sulaiman Ogunbiyi, aka Absorver federal, Saminu Adamu and Nasiru Umar in Araromi community, Agbado” adding that ten of the hoodlums were earlier picked up at various locations in Ifo, kajola and Ososun areas in Ifo Local Government Area by SARS operatives.

She said that the State’s Commissioner of Police had appealed to members of the public to reach out to the command through 08081770416 whenever they are in distress.