Crime

Ogun Police Arrests 108 People for Breaching Lockdown Order

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One hundred and eight persons have been arrested and prosecuted in Abeokuta for violating the lockdown order at the Ogun State Mobile Magistrate Court.

The offenders arrested by security agents within Abeokuta metropolis were tried for non-use of face mask and unlawful movement in line with measures to contain COVID-19 in Ogun state.

The Mobile Magistrate Court presided over by Mr. David Ogogo sentenced forty persons to community service, forty-one persons paid fine while twenty seven others were released.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kenneth Ebrimson while addressing newsmen at Obantoko area of Abeokuta expressed displeasure at the level of compliance with the lockdown order of both the Federal and state government.

He noted that all the efforts being made to ensure the containment of COVID-19 pandemic must be observed with all seriousness.

The Commissioner of Police stressed that security agencies will have zero tolerance to violation of rules and regulations guiding the containment of the Coronavirus across Ogun state.

Mr. Ebrimson told the security officers to give access to only the permits duly signed by the Secretary to the Ogun State Government and the Commissioner of Police.

Wale Oluokun

Crime

Ogun Police Arrest Three Military Impersonators

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Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested three suspected men for allegedly impersonating to be military men.

The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi said in Abeokuta that the three men were arrested in military camouflage in Agbado Area of the state.

Mr Oyeyemi noted that some police officers had been on the close watch of the suspects following a series of reports from members of the public about their illegal activities in the area.

The police spokesman who explained that the suspects claimed initially to be officers of 174 Battalion Ikorodu, confessed to having been dismissed from the Nigerian army a long time ago.

Mr Oyeyemi said the Commissioner of Police, Mr Kenneth Ebrimson had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.

Olusegun Folarin

Sport

Egba Youths Football Championship Kicks off in Abeokuta

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Ogun Commissioner of Police, Mr Kenneth Ebrimson has encouraged stakeholders in the sports sector to support the development of grassroots games towards eradicating crimes in the communities.

Mr Ebrimson made the call at the official kick-off of the second edition of Egba Youths Football Championship in Abeokuta.

The Egba Youths Football competition was put together for participants from six local government areas of Ogun central to promote peaceful coexistence among the people.

The Ogun state Commissioner of Police, Mr Kenneth Ebrimson who performed the kick-off ceremony of the annual football competition said sports remained a viable instrument to enhance the effectiveness of community policing in the country.

Mr Ebrimson described the competition as laudable, pointing out that the event would help to reduce social ills in the state.

He said the command would also take advantage of the competition to strengthen the ties between police and the communities.

The initiator, a member of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, SWAN, Ogun state chapter, Mr Olalekan Soyinka said the competition was put together to nurture and develop talents in the state.

The competition was witnessed by school pupils who visited Muda Lawal Stadium, Asero, Abeokuta for the inter-house sports rehearsals as well as soccer fans from different parts of the state. 

In one of the matches decided, Gadmaj FC defeated FMC by three goals to one.

The competition will be rounded off on the 19th of April, 2020.

Olusegun Folarin

Crime

Police Uncover Baby-Making Factory in Mowe

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A baby-making factory had been uncovered by men of the Nigeria Police, Ogun State Command at Imedu-Olori area of Mowe in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state.

The illegal baby factory according to the command’s spokesman, Alhaji Abimbola Oyeyemi, was discovered when one of the inmates escaped from the home and reported at Mowe Police Station.

Alhaji Oyeyemi said the escaped inmate reported that she was lured into the home and was held captive.

The police explained that the alleged owner of the baby factory, one Florence Ogbonna had been contracting the service of able-bodied men to sleep with the ladies in order to impregnate them.

According to the police spokesman, when the detectives raided the baby-making factory, twelve ladies between ages twenty to twenty-five years were rescued with six of them heavily pregnant.

The police have since effected the arrest of the operators of the home including Florence Ogbonna, Chibuke Akabueze, and Chibuzor Okafor in connection to the case.

Meanwhile, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Mr Kenneth Ebrimson has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation.

He also directed the safe keep of the victims pending the time they would be re-united with their respective families.

Wale Oluokun

Crime

ILAROPOLY SUG President, One Student, Nabbed over Alleged Cultism

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Men and officers of the Nigeria Police Force, Ogun State Command have arrested the president of the Students’ Union Government of Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, Adegboye Olatunji and one Olarewaju Taiwo for alleged cultism.

A statement by the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi said the duo were arrested following an information received from members of the public that some group of people suspected to be cultists were sighted in a bush at Gbogidi area of Ilaro where they were trying initiate new members into their dreaded group.

Mr. Oyeyemi explained that the Divisional Police Officer, Ilaro Division, Mr. Olayemi Jacob who received the information, mobilized his patrol team and moved to the scene where the two suspects were arrested, while others escaped through the bush.

He added that the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kenneth Ebrimson had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the anti-cultists section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCID, for discreet investigation.

Meanwhile, the authorities of the Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, says it has suspended the institution’s SUG president, Adegboye Olatunji.

A statement by the institution’s Deputy Registrar, Sola Abiala said the suspension of Adegboye was in line with the polytechnic’s zero tolerance for cultism, pending his appearance before the Students’ Disciplinary Committee, SDC, to establish his culpability or otherwise.

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Crime

Man Arrested for Attempted Murder of Graduate

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Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested a twenty five old cobbler Olamide Babayemi for allegedly raping and making an attempt to kill a twenty-two year old Microbiology graduate.

The state’s Police Public Relations officer, PPRO, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi said in a statement in Abeokuta that the suspect was arrested following a report by the victim at the Redemption Camp Police Station.

Mr. Oyeyemi explained that the victim claimed to have given the suspect the sum of eighteen thousand naira to help her to buy phone but the cobbler refused to buy the phone for her.

He said the victim told Divisional Police Officer, DPO that the cobbler invited her to an estate in Mowe to collect the phone but the suspect raped her and recorded her naked video which he started sending to some of his friends. 

Mr. Oyeyemi explained that the victim claimed that the phone call that the suspect received from his mother gave her the opportunity to escape from being killed.

The police’s spokesman said the suspect who was arrested by the Mowe Divisional Police Officer claimed to be the boyfriend of the victim.

Mr. Oyeyemi said the suspect blamed the victim for the incident for calling it quits with him after she graduated from the university. 

He noted that the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kenneth Ebrimson had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution

Olusegun Folarin