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Police arrest eight suspected cultists for reportedly killing rival in Ogun
TopNaija reports that the police in Ogun State have arrested eight suspected cultists over the death of a man in Ifo area of the state.
The police said they made some arrests when they clamped down on members of Eiye and Aiye cult groups on Sunday.
It was said that members of two cult groups had embarked on supremacy battle in Ifo, during which one of them identified as Ofada was shot dead by a rival cultist.
After receiving a distress call, the DPO of police divisional headquarters, CSP Adekunle Adeniyi, was said to have quickly led his men to the scene where they met two others with gunshot injuries.
“On interrogation, the arrested ones told the police that their accomplices had run to Osuke area of Onipanu Ota, where they were planning to launch another round of attack,” Oyeyemi told TopNaija.
Consequently, the DPO of Onipanu division was contacted as he moved to Osuke, where he reportedly met a group of cultists holding a meeting inside a bush, it was gathered.
“While investigation was going on, information got to the police that one of the cultists was seen receiving treatment for gun-shot injury in Arobiye village Ota, the DPO Onipanu swiftly moved in there and got the suspect, one Toheeb Olorunkemi, who confessed participating in IFO crisis where he received gunshot injury arrested,” he said.