Police Arrests Cultists Working For Land Grabber At Ogijo
By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA
Two members of Eiye cult group suspected to be working for a land grabber in order to unleash mayhem on innocent land owners in Ogun communities have been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command.
Luck ran out of the two dreaded Eiye cult members arrested on August 11th, 2020 by the police just as others fled after sighted the police while planning to carry out their deadly activities and to justify the money being paid for their services by their contractor.
According to a release signed and made available to newsmen in Abeokuta by DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi PPRO, Ogun Command, it stated that the suspects were contacted by a yet to be identified notorious land grabber to unleash terror on some communities in Ogijo area of the state.
Oyeyemi expressed that the suspects, Oladayo Bello, 34 years old and Awobajo Muritala, 40 years old were apprehended following an information received by the DPO Ogijo division, CSP Muhammed S Baba that a group of Eiye cult members were gathering at Kanniyi area in Shimmawa where they were planning to attack some communities within the area on the instruction of a yet to be known land grabber.
“On the strength of the information, the DPO led his operatives to the already identified hideout where not less than twenty members of the group were met with various types of dangerous weapons.
“On sighting the policemen, the hoodlums opened fire on them and ran to various direction in a bid to escape. The operatives restrained from firing back to avoid killing innocent members of the public, but they chased and apprehended two amongst them.
“Recovered from the arrested ones are: two cut to size guns, five live cartridges, two expended cartridges, one battle axe, assorted charms and weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.
“Meanwhile, the commissioner of police CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation.
“He equally ordered that the fleeing members of the group must be hunted for and brought to book. Also, he warned land grabbers to stay away from the state as he will not hesitate to deal decisively with anybody trying to disturb the peace of the state under any guise.”
