The Osun State Police Command has announced the arrest of six suspected cultists believed to be causing unrest in Osogbo and surrounding areas.
This was revealed in a statement issued on Friday in Osogbo by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Abiodun Ojelabi.
According to Ojelabi, the arrests are part of ongoing efforts by the Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Gotan, to tackle cultism and related crimes across the state.
He noted that on August 21, around 6:30 p.m., during a student union week at a higher institution in the state, two of the suspects were apprehended based on intelligence reports.
“The anti-cultism unit of the command arrested two suspected notorious cultists, with the nicknames ‘ORIFE’ and ‘AGA’, both 29-years-old.
“They confessed to be member of Aiye and Buccaneer confraternities (Alora) respectively,” he said.
He said in the same vein, on Aug.19, acting on credible information, the command also arrested some hoodlums suspected to be members of a secret cult terrorizing the residents of Okuku Town and its environs.
“Police detectives from Anti-cultism unit of the command moved swiftly to the town where four suspects were apprehended.
“The suspects confessed to be member of Aiye confraternity,” he said
He said, in another development, the police stormed the hideouts of armed hoodlums suspected to be members of Eiye confraternity, led by one ‘Gafari’, terrorising residents of Gbeja and Oke-Baale Osogbo.
He said the suspects fled upon sighting the security operatives.
He, however, said one cut-to- size single barrel gun; a cut-to-size double barrel gun, five sharp cutlasses, one axe and three lives cartridges were recovered from their hideouts .
Ojelabi said efforts were on to arrest the fleeing hoodlums, adding that all the arrested suspects would be charged to court upon completion of investigation.
He quoted CP Gotan urging the students to focus on their education because the law would not spare anyone caught involved in cultism.
