Police in Ogun state will henceforth shoot armed cultists and ritualists at sight, the state command announced on Thursday.
Abdulmajid Ali
According to Premium Times, the Ogun state police command has reiterated its zero tolerance for armed cultists and ritualists in the state as security operatives have been ordered to shoot them at sight.
The order was given today, 7th of August by the state commissioner, Abdulmajid Ali after parading 23 suspected criminals at the State Police Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
This was necessitated by the increasing cases of cultism and rituals in the state. He said the shoot-at-sight order will not amount to extra-judicial killing because the intention of armed criminals is either to kill or maim.
According to the commissioner, the next line of action of the police in Ogun is to storm the student campuses and raid the abode of cultists which has been identified by his team of detectives.
At the briefing, the commissioner announced that the suspects paraded were arrested in connection with murder, kidnapping, cultism and unlawful possession of human skull while several weapons, including guns, cutlasses, assorted charms and expended cartridges were recovered from them.
On the killing of Iyaloja of Ijebuland, Sadiat Elewuju, who was murdered on July 8, the police commissioner disclosed that one person had been charged to court for the killing but declined to reveal the identity of the suspect.
“Our investigation so far confirmed that he perpetrated the act but tried to hide under a cover that six people were seen.
“We didn’t want to parade him because it’s a case that we have already charged to court. From all available information and the investigation conducted, the boy is a very close person to the woman. He was the person that saw the Iyaloja last, he was also the one that took care of her,” the police boss said.