Eight Secondary School Students Arrested for Cultism in Ogun State

Nemesis has caught up with eight students of a public secondary school in Ogun State over an attempt to initiate one of their colleagues into a secret cult.

SATURDAY Crimewatch gathered that the eight students, Sodik Suleiman (16), Seyi Okebiyi  (15), Olaide Sodik (15), Dare Sodiya  (16), Ogunfuwa Samson (17), Adegba Michael (18), Usman Adams (17) and Isa Suleiman (18) were arrested at about 12 noon on November 13, 2015, in Kara Area of Sagamu, in Sagamu Local Government Area of the state by police operatives attached to Sagamu Divisional Police Station, with the assistance of members of Vigilante Service of Ogun State  (VSO), following a tip-off.

The arrested students of Remo Divisional High School, who are suspected members of Black Scorpio Cult group, it was learnt, were caught in an act of initiating one Ayoola Ahmed, 16 years old also, a student of Remo Divisional High School, in a nearby bush within the same Kara axis, when the police operatives swooped on them.

Mr. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, confirmed the incident.

According to Adejobi, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abdulmajid Ali, had directed that the suspects be transferred to the operatives attached to the Department of Criminal Investigation and Intelligence (DCII), Eleweran, Abeokuta, for further investigation, and prosecution of the matter.

He said that the CP has seized the occasion to further reiterate the commitment of the state command to fight cultism and other violent crimes to their barest minimum in a bid to guaranteeing peace and order in the Gateway state.