Ogun Command Parades Four Cultists, Herbalist, 26 Other Suspects
By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA
A total of thirty one suspects arrested for various offences ranging from cultism, vandalism, robbery and murder across the state have been paraded by Ogun State Police Command on Tuesday.
The suspects were paraded at the command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, while the Commissioner of Police (CP) Kenneth Ebrimson in his briefing explained that the suspects were arrested through intensified crime fighting, intelligence gathering and community policing system.
The CP while given the breakdown of the arrest narrated that four members of a notorious cult group who have been terrorising residents of Ijebu Ode area were taken into custody after a burst up at their hideout.
They are Adewale Adeoye popularly known as “16”, Ibrahim Raimi, Bamidele Benzon, Bolaji Oluwole a.k.a J Boy an ex-convict, Muritala Azeez and Jamiu. He added that 33 cartridges,12 arms, 17 cutlasses, seven axes and one length of telecommunication cable were recovered from the suspects.
Speaking to newsmen, one of the suspects, Adewale Adeoye confessed to being a notorious cultist and that he had killed three people.
Similarly, CP said: “One herbalist, Michael Ijomu and three suspected ritualists arrested penultimate week for being in possession of fresh human hands. The four suspects were arrested with two fresh human hands for alleged money rituals following tip-off.
“Three suspected friends, John Feyisetan, Matthew Idosu, and Samuel Adegbola of Owode-Yewa met with a herbalist, Michael Ijomu, to seek spiritual means of rapid enrichment. The 40-year-old herbalist informed them that the only way out was to obtain fresh human hands to be used as a sacrifice for them.
“Mathew suggested to his fellow perpetrators that he had a friend in Abeokuta who could be useful. They met him with the promise to give him one million naira which they did not have.
“Having met their demands, but Matthew and his friends could not fulfill the promise later resulted into fight between them to the point that their secret leaked to the neighbors who alerted the officers attached to the Idiroko Division.
“The fresh hands recovered from them have been deposited at general hospital mortuary for preservation.”
However, in an interview, the four suspects confessed to the crime, but claimed the hands were dead body not fresh human hands for money ritual, but met their waterloo when they could not raise the demanded N1m naira earlier agreed.
Meanwhile, the commissioner has solicited for citizens collaboration on information gathering, and that the war on criminal would be taken to their door steps. “There will be no room for criminality in the state.”
