By Wale Ishola
Four suspected members of a cult group from Ogun State, who went to Lagos to attack members of a rival gang, have been arrested by the police.
Disclosing this in a statement on Saturday, April 27, 2021, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said that operatives attached to Alakuko Division of the State Police Command, on Friday, April 16, arrested the suspects, whose targets were rival cult members at Junior Secondary School, Akinyele, Alakuko area.
The suspects were identified as Tosin Balogun (18), Sunday Dare (15), Olayinka Jubril (14) and Sanni Ayomide Babatunde (15).
The PPRO said that Balogun and Jubril were students of Odewale Community High School, Ijoko, Ogun State, with Babatunde as a student of Tunik International School, Dalemo, Alakuko, while Dare was an apprentice in tailoring at Dalemo, Alakuko.
“Police operatives had got wind of the planned reprisal attacks on their (suspects) rivals in the school and raced to the scene immediately the suspects arrived to cause pandemonium and attack their targets.
“Items like cutlases, weeds suspected to be Indian hemp and assorted charms were recovered from them,” Adejobi stated.
In another development, operatives of Anti-Robbery Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, on Saturday, while acting upon information, arrested a gang of armed robbers and suspected cultists.
He gave their names as Victor Alfred, Chubike Ikeh Donatus and Isiaka Olamide, all 19 years of age.
He stated further that they were arrested at Marble Guest House, 33, Ajibike Street, Ogudu Ojota, at about 3.25 p.m.
The police spokesman said that a Beretta pistol, weeds suspected to be Indian hemp and assorted charms were recovered from them.
“The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered that the suspected cultists be moved to the Command’s Special Squad, Ikeja, for proper investigation and possible arrest of other members of their gang, while the suspected armed robbers be properly investigated and profiled by the Anti Robbery Section of the State CID,” he added.
