Ogun Police Arrest Cultists For Killing Colleague In Agbara
The Police detectives attached to Agbara Division of the Ogun State Police Command on Tuesday 12th August burst the den of some cultists at Igbesa Agbara In Ado Odo Otta Local Government Area of Ogun State and arrested four of them.
The rival cult groups in the area had engaged themselves in a battle leaving one Adeyemi Yomi,22, student of the Gateway Polytechnic Igbesa dead on 11th August at 1830hrs,while the police placed a manhunt on the concerned cult members before one Ologunlagba Timilehin,m, 21,a confessed member of AIRLORD confraternity was arrested by the police.
The arrested cultist, Timilehin, is a strong member of AIRLORD Confraternity which had engaged DORO Confraternity in a gun battle for some hours before they were checkmated by the police. The arrest of the suspect has led to the arrest of additional three members of these groups who are helping the police in its investigation.
Those additional suspects arrested include Anifowose Adewumi,m,21, Ekundayo Oladapo,m,30, and Aina Owolabi. Efforts are still in top gear to get other fleeing members of these cult groups apprehended.
The Ogun State Police Command had,before now, declared a war on cult groups in Ogun State and arrested more than 200(two hundred) cultists belonging to various groups in major cities in ogun to include Sagamu, Ijebu Ode, Ibafo, Otta etc,and were charged to courts accordingly.
The Commissioner of Police Ogun State CP Ikemefuna Okoye has ordered the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Agbara Division to transfer the matter to the Department of Criminal Investigation Eleweran Abeokuta for thorough investigation.
The Commissioner has vowed to continue the fight against these cultists who create brouhaha in the state and make innocent people of the state uncomfortable. He also appealed to the general public to always support the police in its course of getting ogun state rid of miscreants and cultists who foment troubles in Ogun.
