By Tosin Olawale
The police command in Ogun, has paraded 39 suspected cultists that had been terrorising the state.
Parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Abeokuta, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Olanrewaju Oladimeji, said that the arrest was the continuation of the command’s clampdown on cultists.
Oladimeji said that various cult groups had been causing mayhem in different parts of the state recently, especially in Sagamu township, Sagamu Local Government Area (LGA).
He said that the command resolved to take the battle to the doorsteps of known various cultists that had been unleashing terror as a result of supremacy battle.
”We identified various hideouts in Sagamu, Odogbolu, Ode – Lemo and some other areas.
“The Anti -Cultism team in collaboration with other tactical teams and divisional police operatives launched a very serious offensive operation against them and the result is what we are seeing today,” he said.
The police boss pointed out that not less than 24 suspected cultists earlier arrested across the state had been charged to court within the past one week.
The commissioner warned parents and guardians to prevail on their wards to desist from engaging in acts capable of undermining the security of the state.
Olanrewaju noted that operatives of the command were determined to rid the state of cultism and other social vices.
He listed Items recovered from the hoodlums to include: locally made guns, axes, double barrelled guns, bags of weeds suspected to be Indian Hemp, live cartridges, dagger and cutlasses among other locally manufactured weapons.
The police also paraded one Ayinde Musibau , a suspected member of an armed robbery syndicate .
He was arrested following a failed robbery operation at a village in the neighbourhood of Ifo township, Ifo LGA where his gang macheted a commercial motorcyclist before fleeing the area.
