Six days after a concerned citizen made a distress call to the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Igbeba that rival cultists engaged themselves at Ijagun in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, where one ‘Mosquito’ was shot, matcheted and his left hand severed and taken away by his killers, the Ogun State Police Command has arrested one of the alleged murderers.
He is 34-year-old Adekunle Adebajo (Kunle Polly) from Itun Oke Ijebu Isiwo
He was arrested on August 17 about 003hrs in a hideout in Isiwo, Ijebu and presently undergoing police preliminary investigation in Igbeba Division.
Credible information was provided by the public which sustained the police tracks that indicated the hideout of the fleeing suspects.
Upon receiving this information, a team of detectives promptly mobilised and took action by moving to the location, where Kunle Polly was apprehended.
During interrogations, Kunle Polly admitted to being a member of the Eiye Confraternity. This prompted a search warrant to be conducted at his residence and it led to the recovery of a Beretta pistol with six live rounds, two UTC axes and charms.
Investigation is ongoing to unravel the pattern of severing left hand of their victims, and to arrest other criminals that fled the hideout.
An assurance from the Commissioner of Police CP Alamutu Abiodun Mustapha psc, resonates hopes to Isiwo Ijebu community , Ijagun and Ijebu Ode that the era of cultism in Ogun State is past and that the remaining suspects will be brought to justice soon.