Ogun police arrest cultists over forceful initiation of member

                         

The suspected cultists identified as students of ICT Polytechnic, Igbesa in Ogun State have been arrested by the police for attempting to forcefully initiate a reluctant student into the occult.



The Police Command Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, while confirming the arrest in Abeokuta on Sunday said the Anti-Crime Patrol team attached to Agbara Division of the Command arrested the suspects on Friday at about 2am.


Mr. Adejobi said the suspects wanted their reluctant new catch to become a member of Vikings confraternity. He gave identities of the suspects arrested as included Kenneth Mokwunye (24), Adigun David (18) and Okwuma Obiora (17).


The suspects had been threatening to kill a colleague of theirs for failing to join their cult group but this didn’t go well with the student who eventually raised alarm for his safety, he said.


The Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, according to the command spokesman, has given credit to the victimised student for exposing the antics and threats of the suspected cultists, lauding his courage.




He said the command also advised other students who experience such to reveal their ordeals at the hands of cultists to security operatives in order to save their lives and that of others.


In a related development, police detectives attached to Ota and Ogijo Divisions of the command arrested some suspected armed robbers with arms at different locations in the state.


Mr. Adejobi told our correspondent that the detectives in Otta while on routine night patrol along Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway at the weekend at 5.30pm accosted some young men at a petrol filling station and suspected their moves and in an attempt to interrogate them, the young men opened fire on the police vehicle and fled.


They were pursued by the policemen who fired on their legs before they could be arrested with some locally made pistols.


He said the suspects arrested are Yusuf Ahmed (22), of number 15, Old Ojo Road Lagos State and Sunday Oluleye (25) of number 55 Governors Road Oju Ore Ota; while one of them escaped with one locally made pistol. Mr. Adejobi said efforts were ongoing to apprehend the runaway suspects, while he disclosed some items recovered from the suspects as included 4 expended and 20 live cartridges and assorted charms.