Ogun State Police Command, on Sunday, said it has arrested two suspected cultists in the State.
The suspects, as gathered, were nabbed in the early hours of the day following a distress call that members of the Aiye Confraternity were in a supremacy battle with another rival cult group at Elega/Iberekodo axis of Abeokuta metropolis.
Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, identified the suspects as Habeeb Muideen and one Ibrahim.
Oyeyemi explained that after receiving the distress call, the SWAT Commander, Kalejaye Olanrewaju quickly led his men to the scene.
He continued, “On sighting the policemen, the cultists ran to a different direction but were hotly chased and Habeeb Muideen was arrested at Iberekodo while Ibrahim was apprehended at Ajitadun area of the metropolis.
“The two suspects are currently undergoing interrogation at SWAT office to determine their roles in the clash which left one Eiye member dead. Recovered from the arrested suspects are battle axes and assaulted charms.”
He added that the State Police Command has apprehended no fewer than 37 members of various cult groups in a clampdown on cultists in the state within the last one month.
The Ogun State commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, however, ordered a comprehensive manhunt for the fleeing members of the groups.
