Juliana Francis
Policemen attached to Ikorodu Police State, Lagos State Police Command, have arrested two teenagers and four others over alleged involvement in cultism.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Muyiwa Adejobi, said that on April 19, at about 7:30pm, police and local vigilante arrested Fatai Kalejaiye, 25, while he was initiating Kolapo Ayeobasan, 20 at Ikorodu area of the state.
Adejobi said: “The suspect, Fatai, who has confessed to be a member of Eye Confraternity, was caught while performing initiation rites on Kolapo. Also, policemen from Ipakodo station in Ikorodu arrested four suspected cultists, Sunday Mesagan, 16, Damilade Matiminu, 24, Oladimeji Orimoloye, 19 and Akinmoye Emmanuel, 24. The arrest was at the heels of a complaint received from a lady called Temidire Ogunbajo, living at the Majidun area of Ikorodu. She complained that some suspected armed cultists invaded her house and attacked her and other residents of the Majidun community, Ikorodu, April 16, 2021 at 8.30am. The Police, in conjunction with local security operatives in Ikorodu, swung into action and arrested them one after the other between 16th April and 18th April, 2021, while others are still at large. Items recovered from them include one chissle, one cutlasses, broken bottles, charms and some offensive weapons.”
The image maker stated that the suspects would all be taken to the Command’s Special Squad for further investigation on the order of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police (CP), Hakeem Odumosu.
“The Commissioner of Police has also ordered that the fleeing members of the gangs be apprehended by all means so as to cause them to face the full wrath of the law,” said Adejobi.
First Published 2021
