.as Police Apprehend five suspected cultists with dead body
The activities of cultists have continued to worry residents in Lagos and Ogun States.
It was gathered that since the disbandment of Special Anti robbery squad operatives across the country, armed gangs and cults have reigns freely with impunity in Ikorodu and neighborhoods in Ogun State.
A police source said recently, seven headless corpses were recovered from Owutu and Ijede areas in Ikorodu community in Lagos state.
Robbery cases are also said to have increased with residents calling on the police command to come to their rescue.
A resident said ” These boys are taking advantage of the low morale of polivemen due to the endsars protest. There is no day they do not attack one street or the other”
In a related development,
Men of Ogun State Police Command on Monday 14th of December 2020 arrested five suspected members of a dreaded cult group with a dead body of a young man suspected to be a cultist too.
DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi said ‘the suspects Babatunde Shittu, 25, Ayobami Morenikeji 15, Fidelis John 23, Abdullah Adegbenro 17 and Oyeyemi Bakare 20 were arrested following a distress call received at Sango area Command headquarters that a group of boys were seen with a male corpse in a tricycle heading towards Ota with all of them holding dangerous weapons like cutlasses, cudgels and sticks.
Upon the distress call, the area Commander Sango Ota ACP Monday Agbonnika quickly mobilised patrol team to the area where the hoodlums were met on rampage destroying people’s property and stealing from innocent members of the public along Ilo awela road.
The police team engaged and subdued them, and five amongst them were subsequently arrested.
On interogation, they informed the police that they went to party at mushin in Lagos and on their way coming, fight ensued amongst them and in the process, one of them was overran by a fast moving vehicle and he died on the spot. They stated further that they were taking the corpse to the families of their attackers namely; omo ekun, Lampad and Anko purposely for revenge mission.
The hoodlums before the arrival of the police have damaged one Highlander jeep with registration number KJA 275GD belonging to one Emmanuel Adekoya, they have also snatched an infinit phone from one Falola olushola and a cash sum of 50,000 from Emmanuel Agbaje’
The corpse have been recovered from them and deposited at Ifo general hospital mortuary for autopsy.
Meanwhile, the commissioner of police CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation. He also appealed to parents to warn their children from partaking in any act capable of undermining the peace of the state as such act will be met with strict resistance.
