Three members of Supreme Vikings Confraternity were arrested on Thursday, July 8, 2021 by operatives of Ogun State Police Command for allegedly forcing an unwilling person to join their cult group.
The suspects were identified as Williams Omoori a.k.a Tension, Edet Godswill and Emmanuel Dimgba.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the arrest in a statement on Saturday, July 10, said that the suspects were arrested after one Celestine Oyebuchi reported at Igbesa divisional headquarters that he was abducted by the suspects and taken to an uncompleted building, where he was tortured and forced to join their cult group.
The complainant had stated further that the suspects, after torturing him, gave him blood to drink as a sign of initiation.
The PPRO said that the report made the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Igbesa Division, SP Abayomi Adeniji, to send police operatives after the suspects.
He said further that after they were apprehended at their hideout within Igbesa community, the suspects, during interrogation, confessed to being members of Supreme Vikings Confraternity.
They also admitted to looking for more members to join them, which, they said, made them to abduct the complainant.
They added that they abducted him as he might not want to join them through subtle persuasion.
Oyeyemi added that the state Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to anti-cultism section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.
The CP also warned that war against cultism in the state would be a continuous one, but said there was opportunity for those who would want to renounce their membership to do so before the long arms of the law would catch up with them.
