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  • Four farmers arrested for allegedly killing and dismembering a herdsman in Ogun

    Four farmers arrested for allegedly killing and dismembering a herdsman in Ogun

    Four farmers have been arrested by the Ogun state police command for allegedly killing and dismembering the body of Umaru Aliyu, a herdsman at Ijagunre village in Imeko-Afon local government area of Ogun state.

    According to the command spokesperson, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, he disclosed that the suspect identified as Akinyele Adebayo, Gbalo Idosu, Abiala Segun and Kareem Fagbemi Lana, were arrested following a report lodged by one Umaru Jakake, who stated that while he and his brother Umaru Aliyu were grazing their cattle at Ijagunre village, they were accosted by one Ojugbele who warned them not to take their cattle near his farm.

    He stated further that upon the warning, they took their cattle to the other side of the bush for grazing. But the said Ojugbele later called two men who started chasing them about in the bush. The complainant further stated that he managed to escape, but the whereabout of his brother Umaru Aliyu is yet to be known since then.

    Oyeyemi added that the case was reported at Imeko divisional headquarters, but was transferred to State Criminal Investigation Departments Eleweran for discreet investigation on the order of the Commissioner of Police. The case was assigned to SP Kehinde Beyioku led Homicide section who there and then embarked on a technical and intelligence-based investigation to unravel the whereabouts of the missing herdsman.

    ‘’There investigation led to the arrest of Kareem Fagbemi Lana, who confessed to the police that it was one Ojugbele who called him from his own farm to inform him of the presence of herdsmen in their farm vicinity, and that he should come and join him to chase them away.

    He confessed further that he also called Abiala Segun, who came with his dane gun and the three of them started chasing the herdsmen. While chasing them, Kareem Fagbemi Lana collected the dane gun and shot one of the herdsmen Umaru Aliyu to death .

    After killing him, they invited Akinyele Adebayo whose farm is nearby and informed him of the incident. It was Akinyele Adebayo who helped them to dismember the body after telling them that he needs the head of the deceased for certain ritual and they all agreed with him to take it .

    They then took the remaining parts of the body to Tamake town and buried it in front of Gbalo Idosu house.The confession of Kareem Fagbemi Lana led to the arrest of three others while Ojugbele is still on the run. The deceased’s head and other body parts have been recovered by the policemen.” Oyeyemi said

    The police spokesperson added that the state Commissioner of Police, CP Olanrewaju Oladimeji, who commended the Homicide team for the painstaking investigation, has ordered a massive manhunt for the fleeing member of the gang to be brought to book.

    He stated that the CP has also ordered that the arrested suspects be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.costed by one Ojugbele who warned them not to take their cattle near his farm.

  • Police arrest NYSC member for alleged rape in Ogun

    Police arrest NYSC member for alleged rape in Ogun

    The police command in Ogun says it has arrested a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Adebola Sodiq, for allegedly raping a 20-year-old girl. (name withheld).

    SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Spokesman in the state, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Saturday.

    Oyeyemi explained that the suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Owode Egba Divisional Headquarters in Obafemi Owode local government area of the state by the victim.

    According to the police spokesman, the victim reported that the suspect was a boyfriend to her very close friend.

    “She said he came to her apartment where she lives with her co-workers on May 9 and asked her to follow him to a junction to buy a gift for her in celebration of her recent birthday.

    “She stated that as an intimate friend to the suspect’s girlfriend, she has no reason to suspect any foul play, hence she followed him.

    “But while they were going, the suspect asked her to follow him to the premises of the school where he is serving, in order to pick his wallet.

    “On getting to the school compound at Agbajege village, the suspect forcefully dragged her to his room where Sodiq had unlawful carnal knowledge of her despite her pleading and crying for mercy,” he said.

    Oyeyemi explained that upon receiving the report, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Owode Egba Division, Olasunkanmi Popoola ordered Sodiq’s arrest.

    He added that on interrogation, he confessed to the commission of the crime but claimed that he did not know what came over him.

    The police spokesman stated that the victim was taken to Owode Egba General Hospital by the police for medical treatment.

    Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, had directed that Sodiq be transferred to the State Criminal Investigative Department for further investigation and possible prosecution.

  • Egypt indicates interest in Ogun’s Agro Processing Zone – Abiodun

    Egypt indicates interest in Ogun’s Agro Processing Zone – Abiodun

    Egypt has indicated interest in Ogun’s Agro Processing Zone (APZ), Gov. Dapo Abiodun said at Abeokuta on Saturday.

    The APZ is located at the Gateway International Agro Cargo Airport, Iperu-Ilishan Remo part of the state.

    Abiodun told executive officers of the Ogun chapter of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), at an interactive session that Egypt planned to have farm plantations in the zone.

    He said the North African country planned to plant crops, process the harvest and export finished products to Egypt.

    He added that representatives of the Egyptian government would visit Ogun soon to finalise details of the investment.

    “I met with the National President of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria in Abuja. He is working with a team of farmers sent by the Egyptian government.

    “Egypt has a food security programme and has identified Ogun as one of the states to partner with.

    “Representatives of the Egyptian government in agriculture will be coming to Ogun on May 16.

    “They have done their research and were convinced that Ogun is one of the states strategically located to invest in; to farm in; to process in and to export from,’’ Abiodun said.

    He assured that his administration was determined to encourage foreign and local investors in agriculture.

    He also assured AFAN that government would look into its proposal to start a state-owned Anchor Borrowers Programme.

    The core of the programme is to provide loans in kind and in cash for smallholder farmers to boost agricultural production, create jobs, and reduce food import bills.

    Abiodun also promised to also look into the possibility of appointing AFAN members into agriculture-related government agencies.

    Earlier, AFAN Vice-President, Mr Segun Dasaolu, said there were lots of opportunities and grants available for Ogun to exploit for the commencement of its own Anchor Borrowers Programme.

  • Gov Abioodun declares cultism as act of terrorism in Ogun

    Gov Abioodun declares cultism as act of terrorism in Ogun

    Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun has declared cultism and social menace in the state as acts of terrorism, warning that his administration would deal with suspected cultists as terrorists.

    The governor, who made the declaration at the Akarigbo’s Palace in Sagamu on Friday at a stakeholder’s security meeting, said his administration has had enough and was ready to deal with the matter once and for all.

    “I am declaring cult members and cult activities here as an act of terrorism, I am taking these as a test of this administration’s will.

    ”I have sounded a note of warning at times past, I am resounding a fresh note of warning to all cult members, to their parents, to their landlords, to their sponsors.

    “From today, we are considering cult members and other criminals as saboteurs to the economy of not just this local government area, this town but this state. We will consider them as terrorists, I will deal with them as such.

    “I have instructed our law enforcement agencies to smoke these people out, I have told the Commissioner of Police that he has no other job until every single member of this cult is found out,” he stressed.

    Abiodun disclosed that his administration would establish a Joint Intervention Squad made up of the military, Police, Department of State Security, Civil Defence, and local vigilante to deal with cultism and other related crimes, especially in Sagamu.

    The squad, the governor said,  would be provided with necessary equipment while its headquarters would be sited in Sagamu Local Government Area of the state.

    “Reports show that there has been a prevalence of cult activities in Abeokuta North, Abeokuta South, Sagamu, Ikenne and Odogbolu particularly, we have been dealing with these issues over time.

    ” But in the last few weeks, we have began to see an upsurge in the cases of inter-cultist rivalry that has resulted in clashes and killings of innocent people,” he said.

    The Akarigbo of Remoland and Chairman, Ogun State Council of Obas, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, in his remarks,  said that people of diverse culture and religion had co-existed in the town for a long time.

    Ajayi said he wondered why few elements in the society should disrupt the peace and progress the town had enjoyed in the past.

    He said that the town could not continue to accommodate violence, noting that it was unacceptable.

    ” What is happening now is not in our culture and it is not in our interest. We have co-existed as brothers and sisters for a long time.

    ” It is time for parents and guardians to talk to their sons and daughters. Together, we shall overcome these trying times,” he said.

    Also speaking, the Seriki Hausawa of Sagamu, Alhaji Garuba Inua, while narrating an incident of a cult clash, said that the crisis was between rival cultists and not a case of the inter-ethnic skirmish.

    He pointed out that the Hausa and Yoruba communities engaged in cultism.

    Inua said that his people were ready to work with other stakeholders in restoring peace as they had adopted Sagamu as their own.

    Also, the Iyaloja of Sagamu, Mrs Folashade Oduwaye, expressed displeasure on the development.

    Oduwaye said the people were now living in fear and no one was safe due to the nefarious acts of hoodlums.

    She urged stakeholders to work together to eradicate cultism in the town.

  • Police arrest suspected serial killer, ritualist in Ogun, reject N1m bribe

    Police arrest suspected serial killer, ritualist in Ogun, reject N1m bribe

    The Police Command in Ogun has arrested a suspected member of a ritualist syndicate, who allegedly killed and dismembered one Oyindamola Adeyemi at Ijebu-Ode on Jan. 28.

    The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Sunday.

    Oyeyemi said that the suspect was arrested on Friday at Ijade-Iloti area of Ijebu-Ode.

    He said that the suspect offered the policemen who arrested him N1 million bribe which was rejected.

    Oyeyemi said that other members of the gang had earlier been arrested.

    He further stated that the suspect was apprehended following painstaking intelligence-based investigation embarked upon by detectives from Obalende Divisional Headquarters, which led them to his hideout.

    “The suspect, who had been indicted by the earlier arrested members of the syndicate as the person who bought the two legs of the victim, took to flight immediately after he heard that he had been mentioned by his colleagues.

    “Since then, the DPO, Obalende division, Murphy Salami, has detailed his detectives to be on his trail with a view to arresting him and possibly recovering the deceased’s two legs from him and prosecuting him with his colleagues-in-crime.

    “Luck, however, ran against him when he was apprehended at his Ijade-Iloti hideout on April 28,” he said.

    Oyeyemi added that the suspect had confessed being part of the syndicate that killed the victim and that he was the person who severed the two legs of the deceased, which he claimed he used for ritual purpose.

    The Commissioner of Police, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, had directed that the suspect be transferred to the State Criminal Investigations Department in order to prosecute him with other members of his syndicate.

  • Father allegedly chains, starves 2 children to death in Ogun

    Father allegedly chains, starves 2 children to death in Ogun

    Operatives of the Ogun security network, also known as the Amotekun Corps, have arrested a 45-year-old man, Gbenga Ogunfadeke, for allegedly chaining and locking his two children in solitary confinement which led to their death.

    Mr David Akinremi, the State Commander of the Amotekun Corps, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta.

    Akinremi explained that the suspect was arrested on Tuesday, April 18  in Ibiade, Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of the state by men of the corps.

    He said that the suspect was arrested following a complaint by his ex-wife.

    According to the statement, the suspect, a father of three, accused his children of stealing.

    Akinremi said the suspect was alleged to have chained and locked the children in solitary confinement without food and water for over three months which led to the death of two of the children.

    He stated that the corps gathered that the suspect had been maltreating the children aged 16, 17 and 18 since he took custody of them following his crashed marriage with their mother, Busola Otusegun.

    “One of the three children came across his aunt in Ibiade where he currently lives with his father (suspect), and narrated their experience with their father which led to the death of his two elder siblings , Yusuf Ogunfadeke ,18 and Dasola Ogunfadeke ,17 .

    “It happened between April and June 2022 in Ijebu-Ode where they were all living with the suspect until he relocated back to Ibiade.

    “According to the child, their father chained and locked them in solitary confinement without food and water for over three months which led to the death of the two siblings but he miraculously survived the ordeal,” he said.

    Ogunremi explained that the suspect when interrogated, admitted the alleged confinement of the children for months, but denied not feeding them and being responsible for their death.

    The Amotekun commander stated that the suspect said his action was based on the children’s involvement in stealing, hence the need to ensure they were stopped from continuing with such.

    He added that the suspect claimed that his two deceased children were taken to the hospital for treatment at different times when they fell ill, but unfortunately died in the process.

    “What is however curious about his defence is that the hospital where he claimed the two children died in Ijebu-Ode could neither be located.

    “Where he allegedly buried them behind a rented apartment he lived in Ijebu-Ode before relocating to his present abode in Ibiade with the third child could also not be traced for possible exhumation.

    “The fact that he refused to make the incidents known to any member of the family also gives course for concern, more so when the suspect is a herbalist, thus further fuelling the suspicion of having killed the deceased for possible rituals,” Akinremi  said.

    The Amotekun commander said that the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation to establish further facts that would facilitate his prosecution.

  • TRACE officer kidnapped on Lagos-Ibadan expressway

    TRACE officer kidnapped on Lagos-Ibadan expressway

    An officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Popoola Olasupo, was on Sunday abducted at Fidiwo axis on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

    It was gathered that Olasupo was kidnapped at about 6:30 am on Sunday morning while going to his duty post.

    It was also gathered that the police and local vigilantes are on the trail of the kidnappers.

    According to eyewitness, the kidnappers suddenly emerged from the bush and opened fire on a commercial bus with an intention to kidnap.

    Eventually, none of the passengers were kidnapped but the TRACE officer was unlucky.

    When contacted, the spokesperson, Ogun police command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta, saying that the state anti-kidnapping team is already after the kidnappers.

    “Our anti-kidnapping squad are already after them, we are combing the forests and we know that they will all be arrested.

    “Ogun state is not a ground for criminals to settle. It is either they leave or we smoke them out of this state,” he said.

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  • 7 passengers burnt to ashes along Lagos-Ibadan expressway

    7 passengers burnt to ashes along Lagos-Ibadan expressway

    No fewer than seven persons were on Thursday burnt to ashes in an accident few metres away from Saapade bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

    The spokesperson of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun, Mrs  Florence Okpe, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta.

    Okpe explained that 18 passengers sustained various degree of injuries when a Toyota Sienna bus marked BWR 762 PV collided with a Mazda bus registered BDN 18 LG.

    She added that the accident was caused by excessive speed and route violation.

    According to her, the Sienna bus driver followed one-way and collided with the Mazda bus which burst into flames.

    The FRSC official said 27 passengers comprising 25 men, two women and a female child were involved in the accident, out of which seven were burnt beyond recognition.

    She said that the injured victims were taken to Victory Hospital, Ogere and Idera Hospital in Sagamu for medical attention.

    According to her, the corpses of the deceased were deposited at FOS Morgue, Ipara.

  • Ogun: APC welcomes Adebutu’s petition against re-election of Gov. Abiodun

    Ogun: APC welcomes Adebutu’s petition against re-election of Gov. Abiodun

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun says it welcomes the filing of petition against the re-election of Gov. Dapo Abiodun by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Oladipupo Adebutu.

    Adebutu and PDP filed a petition challenging the outcome of the March 18 election at the electoral petition tribunal on Thursday in Abeokuta.

    They joined INEC, APC and Gov. Abiodun as first, second and third respondents, respectively.

    They asked the tribunal to direct INEC to conduct fresh election in 99 polling units in 41 wards and in 16 of the 20 local government areas of the state.

    They alleged that elections were either not held and or were cancelled in the polling units listed because of disruption of the exercise and over-voting.

    They also asked the tribunal to order the fresh election to the exclusion of APC and Gov. Abiodun.

    Responding to the petition on Saturday in Abeokuta, APC’s Publicity Secretary in Ogun, Mr Tunde Oladunjoye, stated that it was good that Adebutu had decided to toe the path of civility and honour as advised by the APC.

    He added that APC hoped that after filing the petition, Adebutu would desist from cheap blackmail, sponsored protests, incitements, false claims and propaganda.

    “We also take cognisance of his claims when he went to file the petition and wish to advise that he should not intimidate or stampede the tribunal.

    “His lawyers should advise him against ignoble attitude, knowing full well that a case is determined by extant laws, facts and evidence and not on fantasies and whims of any of the parties, no matter how plausible.

    “They have stated their claims. They should expect our response.

    “Suffice it to say that Adebutu who said he won the election is asking the court to disqualify Gov. Abiodun from a rerun if his prayer that election should be held in certain polling units is upheld,’’ he stated.

    Oladunjoye added that the APC would leave its lawyers to do justice to the petition.

    “While we leave our team of lawyers to do justice to issues raised in the petition, we advise Adebutu to conduct himself as a citizen of Ogun under the leadership of Gov. Abiodun.

    “Abiodun, by the grace of God and the benevolence of the good people of Ogun, remains the governor of our beloved state,’’ Oladunjoye added.

    INEC declared Gov. Abiodun as winner of the election on March 19, having polled 276,298 votes against Adebutu’s 262,383 votes.

  • Man sets ex-lover’s apartment ablaze in Ogun

    Man sets ex-lover’s apartment ablaze in Ogun

    The Police Command in Ogun says it has arrested a 43-year-old man Yusuf Hassan, for allegedly setting the apartment of his ex-lover Busayo Falola, ablaze, burning down the whole building.

    SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Saturday.

    Oyeyemi explained that the incident happened at 127, old Schorlar Palace, Igan road, Ago Iwoye, in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun at about 1:15 a.m.

    He said the suspect was arrested on April 4 by the Police.

    He added that the arrest followed a report lodged at Ago Iwoye Divisional Headquarters by the 62-year-old landlady of the house, Adejoke Salau.

    The PPRO added that the landlady had reported that she heard a noise from one of her buildings within her compound at about 1:15 a.m. and she discovered that the building was on fire while the tenants in the house were trapped in there.

    Oyeyemi noted that Salau stated that it was the quick intervention of neighbours that rescued the three tenants, but said the house got razed by the fire.

    He stated that upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Ago Iwoye, Noah Adekanye, led his men to the scene from where the occupants of the house were invited to the station for interrogation.

    ”On interrogation, one of the tenants, Falola informed the police that she saw her ex-lover, Yusuf Hassan, at the back of her window at about 12:30 a.m. on the fateful day.

    ”She explained further that she was scared to see him at that ungodly hour which made her to scream and ran out of her room to the room of another tenant.

    ”This made other tenants to come out in order to check what Hassan was up to, only for them to discover flame coming out from Falola’s room.

    ”Upon the information, Yusuf Hassan was hunted for and was subsequently apprehended,” he said.

    Oyeyemi disclosed that Hassan initially denied knowing anything about the incident, but later confessed being the person who set the house ablaze.

    ”He confessed further that he intended to burn his ex-lover in her own apartment because he had tried his best to reconcile with her in vain.

    ”And that was the reason why he bought N500 petrol, poured it into her room through the window, and set it on fire,” he said.

    Oyeyemi explained that the suspect had been transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and possible prosecution.