Ijebu Igbo OPC Cult clash, Police arrests five more suspects, total number of arrest now 34

Police says it has arrested five more suspects following the bloody clash between members of the Oodua People’s Congress and a cult group (Aye confraternity) in the Ijebu Igbo area of Ogun State, which according to the Police claimed the lives of a Police Inspector and three others.

The Police initially arrested 29 suspects on Monday, with a pump action gun and one locally made pistol recovered from them.

Spokesman of the state Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi who made this known said the newly arrested five suspects were arrested with pump action gun, two locally made pistols ten live cartridges and charms.

He added that the combing of the various hideouts of the hoodlums is in progress, while the total number of suspects arrested is now 34.

Oyeyemi said that the Command is resolute in its determination to bring to book all those who are directly or indirectly linked to the clash no matter how highly place such persons may be.

He said, “While we are doing that, no innocent person will be unjustly punished.”

The State Police Commissioner, Ahmed Iliyasu, according to him has ordered 24-hour surveillance patrol of the town and its environs, while he equally directed that the Area Commander of Ijebu Ode Area Command should be coordinating the police operation in the town.

Oyeyemi said the Police boss gave the directive when he visited the troubled town on Tuesday for on the spot assessment.