The Ogun State Police Command, on Saturday, stated that it has arrested 34-year-old Adekunle Adebajo, popularly referred to as Kunle Polly, a suspected cultist for allegedly taking part within the homicide of a rival cultist often called Mosquito in Ijebu Ode space of Ogun.
Mosquito was reported to have been hacked to loss of life lately along with his left hand minimize off and brought away.
The state police spokesperson, SP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in an announcement issued in Abeokuta, the state capital, on Saturday.
She stated that on August 12, a involved citizen made a misery name to the Divisional Police Officer in Igbeba that rival cult members engaged each other the place Mosquito was shot, macheted and his left hand severed and brought away by his killers.
Odutola famous that Adebajo popularly referred to as “ Kunle Polly”, who was suspected to be one of many killers of Mosquito was arrested at 12:03 a.m. in his hideout at Isiwo, Ijebu.
She disclosed that credible data was offered by the general public which sustained the police tracks that indicated the hideout of the fleeing suspects.
Odutola stated, “Upon receiving this data, a staff of detectives promptly mobilised and took motion by shifting to the situation, the place one suspect, Adekunle Adebajo aka Kunle Polly, 34, was apprehended.
“Throughout interrogations, Kunle Polly admitted to being a member of the Eiye confraternity.
“This prompted a search to be carried out at his residence which led to the restoration of a Beretta pistol with six dwell rounds, two UTC axes, and charms.
“Investigation is ongoing to unravel the sample of severing the left hand of their victims, and to arrest different criminals that fled the hideout.”
She stated that the suspect is present process preliminary investigation in Igbeba Division, Ijebu Ode.
The Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu, reassured all that the period of cultism within the Isiwo Ijebu group had gone, promising that the remaining suspects can be dropped at justice to account for his or her misdeeds.
The state command had on Friday arrested a 35-year-old wished suspected cultist, Olamilekan Akojede, in Oja Odan, Yewa-North Native Authorities Space of the state.
Akojede was stated to be the quantity one of many Alora confraternity and had been on the police watch record till he was arrested.
He was stated to be identified for terrorising the residents of the realm earlier than his arrest.
