Security

Odutola is Ogun PPRO, Oyeyemi for Oyo

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A Superintendent of Police, Omolola Odutola, has assumed duty as the new Police Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Police Command.

This followed the redeployment of the immediate past spokesman of the command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, to Oyo State.

Oyeyemi, who announced the development on Thursday, expressed gratitude to newsmen for their support throughout his stay in office.

He said, “You people made my job easier as I enjoyed the best of reportage from your various platforms. You people made me to be very popular beyond my own expectations.

“There is time for everything,” she said, adding that “it’s time for me to leave, as my service is needed elsewhere. Kindly extend the same cooperation to my successor.”

The new Ogun PPRO, SP Odutola, a trained lawyer and a criminologist, enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police as a member of ASP Course 25, 2012.

Odutola has served at the Ondo State Police Command and was the first Public Relations Officer of the Maritime Command, Force Headquarters Annex, Kam Salem House, Obalende, Lagos.

An alumnus of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Odutola is a member of several professional bodies, which include the Nigeria Bar Association and the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations.

Culled / Titilayo Kupoliyi

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Crime

Police in Ogun Arrest Four Farmers for Allegedly Killing Herder

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By Olusegun Folarin

Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested four farmers for allegedly killing and dismembering the body of a herder identified as Umaru Aliyu, at Ijagunre village in Imeko-Afon local government area of Ogun state. 

The suspects, Akinyele Adebayo, Gbalo Idosu, Abiala Segun and Kareem Fagbemi Lana were arrested after one Umaru Jakake, reported the incident at Imeko divisional headquarters.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the arrest of the suspects in Abeokuta.

Mr Oyeyemi said the brother of the deceased, Umaru Jakake had told the policemen attached to Imeko Divisional headquarters that the suspects attacked them on their way to another farm after one of the suspects, Ojugbele had earlier directed them to leave his farm.

He said their investigation led to the arrest of Kareem Fagbemi Lana, who confessed to the police that it was one Ojugbele who called him from his own farm to inform him of the presence of herdsmen in their farm vicinity and that he should come and join him to chase them away.

The Command’s spokesman said the suspects told the policemen that they took the remaining parts of the body to Tamake town and buried it in front of Gbalo Idosu’s house.

He said that the deceased’s head and other body parts had been recovered by the policemen. 

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, who commended the Homicide team for the painstaking investigation, ordered a massive manhunt for the fleeing member of the gang to be brought to book. 

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Crime

Man in Police Net for Trafficking wife

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Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 36-year-old man, Kingsley Essien, for allegedly trafficking his wife to Mali for prostitution and selling her two-year-old son for N600,000.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Thursday, said the suspect was arrested following a report lodged at the Agbara divisional headquarters by the suspect’s wife, Bright Essien.

The PPRO said, “Bright reported that sometime in October 2021, her husband, Kingsley Essien, informed her that he had secured a job for her in Bamako Mali, and that he had assisted many people to that country for greener pastures before.

“She explained further that being her husband, she didn’t suspect any foul play until she got to Mali only to discover that she had been sold to a human trafficker cartel headed by a woman at the rate of N1,400,000.

“While in Mali, she was forced into prostitution, but later found her way to the Nigerian embassy in Bamako, where she was assisted back to Nigeria.

“On getting to Nigeria, she discovered that her two-year-old son in care of her husband was nowhere to be found.

Upon the report, the DPO, Agbara division, SP Abiodun Salau, detailed detectives to go after the suspect, and he was eventually arrested.

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Crime

Police Nab Suspected Kidnapper in Ogun

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A middle-aged man, Sakiru Famuyiwa, has been arrested by men of Ogun state police command for allegedly stealing two children during a church service in Ijeja area of Abeokuta.

The suspect was arrested after the policemen attached to Ibara divisional headquarters received a distress call from a celestial church of Christ that two children had been stolen.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the arrest of the suspect in a statement in Abeokuta.

Mr Oyeyemi said the suspect had sneaked into the children’s department of the church and stole two children between the ages of two and three.

He noted that it took the intervention of the policemen led by DPO Ibara division, Mr Nasirudeen Oyedele, to rescue the suspect from being lynched by the angry mob 

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the Anti-kidnapping unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation. 

He also ordered that the accomplice be hunted for and brought to book.

Olusegun Folarin

Crime

Police Arrest 22 Suspected Cultists In Ogun

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Twenty two suspected cultists have been arrested by the special squad of Ogun state Police command in the last 48 hours in different parts of the state.

The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the arrest of the suspects in Abeokuta.

Mr Oyeyemi explained that the arrested cultists who had affirmed their membership of Aye and Eiye confraternities were apprehended when the special Squad, headed by the Assistant Commissioner of Police Department of operation stormed their hideouts at Mayas in Lafenwa and Oju Ogabra in Sapon area of Abeokuta.

He also noted that some of the suspects were also apprehended in Sagamu during the similar operation carried out by the squad.

The command’s spokesperson pointed out that the suspects were currently being interrogated to ascertain their roles in the cult war that engulfed the State recently which claimed the life of some cult members.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Lanre Bankole who commended the quick response of the squad urged them to take the battle to the doorsteps of all known cultists in the State.

Mr Bankole appealed to members of the public to always cooperate with the team by giving them necessary information that would enhance their operation, describing security as everybody’s business.

Olusegun Folarin

Crime

Police Nab Cult Groups In Ogun

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Eight members of dreaded cult groups have been arrested by men of Ogun state police command l during a special operation to checkmate violent activities of cultists in the state. 

A statement by the Police command spokesman, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi in Abeokuta explained that the suspected cult members were arrested following bloody clashes between members of cult groups that have been terrorizing different parts of the state in recent time. 

He said the supremacy battle between members of Aye and Eiye cult groups have led to the death of four persons in the Abeokuta and Itori area of the state. 

Mr Oyeyemi stated that the disturbances prompted the state commissioner of police Mr Lanre Bankole to order a massive manhunt for members of the groups.

The Police Command spokesman said the operation led to the arrest of the suspects including Toheeb Erinoso, Olufunso Moyo, Sanya Ayinde and Ramon Oyetola.

Other arrested suspected cultists are Akinyemi Olamide, Monsuru Akindele, Adeoba Saheed and Babalola Rasaq. 

Exhibits recovered from the suspects are three locally made guns.

The Ogun state commissioner of police has ordered the continuation of the operation until the hoodlums terrorizing the state get flushed out. 

The police commissioner also advised parents to call their children and wards noting that those caught fomenting trouble will be dealt with.

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