Police arrest cultist trying to disrupt school’s examination in Ogun

A suspected cultist, Ojo Akinola Iyanu was on the 26th of October 2021, arrested by men of Ogun state police command while trying to disrupt school examination going on at Ogun state Institute of Technology Igbesa in Ado Odo Ota local government area of the state.

The suspect was arrested following credible intelligence gathered by the police that some students who belong to a cult group have concluded a plan to disrupt the school examination which was rescheduled after the settlement of the crisis between the school management and the students.

Upon the intelligence, the Divisional Police Officer of Igbesa, SP Abayomi Adeniji, in collaboration with other security agencies such as NSDC, So safe Corps and the polytechnic security department decided to properly screen all the students before coming to the examination hall right from the main gate.

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In a statement signed by the command’s spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, while the screening was going on, the suspect and one other who was later identified as “Aloma” were intercepted with a black bag.

“While searching the bag, the second boy took to his heels while Ojo Akinola Iyanu was quickly arrested. Recovered from the bag is one locally made pistol loaded with one live cartridge.

On interrogation, he confessed being a member of the dreaded “AYE” confraternity. He confessed further that his group decided to disrupt the examination because the examination came suddenly and met them unprepared.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Lanre Bankole has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation.

He also ordered that the remaining members of the group be hunted for and brought to book.