A suspected serial killer, Ibiyemi Wasiri, who was connected with two murder cases and had been on the wanted list of Ogun State Police Command, has been arrested by detectives.
The suspect, an ex-convict, was arrested on Monday, December 6, 2021, according to the Police Public Relations Officer in the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi.
Oyeyemi said that suspect was sighted at a criminal hideout at Igboro area of Ilaro Town, prompting a report at Ilaro divisional headquarters.
This, the PPRO said, made the Divisional Police Officer, CSP Olayemi Jacob to mobilize his men and they moved to the scene where the suspect, who was in the midst of some hoodlums, was arrested while others escaped.
Discovered in a bag found with him was a cut-to-size locally-made pistol and seven live cartridges.
“The suspect, who had been declared wanted by the command for actively participating in the killing of one Michael Abiodun a.k.a S1 on the 22nd of July, 2021, and one Kola Fagbemi on the 24th of July, 2021, confessed to have bought the gun from neighbouring Republic of Benin. He was said to be a member of a dreaded Eiye cult group terrorizing Ilaro and its environs,” the police spokesman stated.
He added that the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation and ilIntelligence Department (SCIID) for discreet investigation.
