Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested five suspected members of a dreaded cult group with the dead body of a young man suspected to be a cult member too.
They were arrested on Monday, December 14, at Ilo-Awela Road at Ota Ogun State.
According to the spokesman of the police in Ogun State, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement made available to FrontPage, the suspects are Babatunde Shittu, 25; Ayobami Morenikeji, 15; Fidelis John, 23; Abdullah Adegbenro, 17 and Oyeyemi Bakare, 20.
The spokesman said they 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, Oyeyemi said, the area Commander, Sango-Ota, ACP Monday Agbonnika, quickly mobilised a 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 interrogation, they informed the police that they went to a party at Mushin in Lagos and on their way back, 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, had damaged one Toyota Highlander SUV, with registration number KJA 275GD belonging to one Emmanuel Adekoya.
They also snatched an Infiniti phone from one Falola Olushola and a cash sum of 50,000 from Emmanuel Agbaje.
The corpse was recovered from them and deposited at Ifo General Hospital mortuary for autopsy.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, 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 would be met with strict resistance.
