Police Round Up 62 Suspected Cultists Within 15 Days in Ogun
Sixty-two suspected cultists were arrested within fifteen days in Ogun State, in a major crackdown by the police on cultists terrorizing various communities in the state. The arrests were made by various police units between January 14 and 28.
52 of those arrested claimed they were members of Alora; one was a member of Aye Confraternity; five were members of Eiye Confraternity; and four others, whose group could not be identified,
The state police commissioner, Abiodun Alamutu, announced this while parading suspected criminals arrested across the state at the state police command, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
The major catch for the police was the 52 members of the Alora Confraternity, including some females, arrested on January 27 at Ifo, near Abeokuta, by operatives of the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT).
The 52 were arrested while initiating new members at a hotel in Iyana Abiodun in the town. Some of them managed to jump the fence of the hotel and escape.
The police chief listed items recovered from the suspects as needles, tee shirts with Alora inscriptions, three vehicles, and 58 cell phones.
Later on January 28, police swooped on four cultists in a secluded forest at Kamalo in Ogijo.
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They fell into a gully while attempting to escape arrests, leaving one of them dead in the pit while three others were injured.
Earlier on January 14 at Adatan, in Abeokuta, two cultists were arrested at a gathering of the Eiye Confraternity hosted by the group Capone, who had been on the police watchlist since last year.
Also on January 16, one cultist who is a member of the Eye Confraternity was arrested at Oke Yeke, near Isabo in Abeokuta, with a locally made pistol.
Three days later, another member of the Eiye Confraternity who was arrested at Ilupeju, near Ota, named seven other members of his group to the police.
On January 27, Swat operatives in an early morning raid arrested a cultist regarded as the hitman of the Eiye Confraternity in the Ijebu axis.
The cultist, nicknamed ‘butcher, claimed to be a student of Tai Solari 8ng University of Education, Ijagun, near Ijebu Ode.
Arms and ammunition recovered by the police from his residence included one serviceable browning pistol loaded with four rounds of live ammunition and its magazine and one pump action rifle with ten live cartridges.
Others are one English short double barrel riffle, two locally made short single barrel riffles, one locally made revolver pistol loaded with two rounds of live ammunition, and assorted criminal charms.
