A suspected serial killer, Suleiman Ganiyu has been arrested by operatives of Ogun State Police Command.
Police said the suspect, who is also a member of dreaded Eiye cult group, had been on the wanted list of the command for a while.
Abimbola Oyeyemi, the spokesperson of the state police command said the suspect was arrested following a distress call from Itamerin Comprehensive High School Ago-Iwoye on March 14, that the suspect came to the school premises and started shooting sporadically simply because his younger brother who is a student of the school was beaten.
The spokesman stated;
Upon the distress call, the DPO Ago-Iwoye, CSP Paul Omiwole led his patrol team to the school but before their arrival, the suspect had ran away. He was subsequently traced to his hideout at Imosan Street Oru-Ijebu where he was eventually apprehended.
On interrogation, he confessed being a leading member of Eiye confraternity. He confessed further that he was the one who killed one Awokale Olusegun a.k.a Lala on the 27th of February 2020 over a supremacy battle following which he was declared wanted by the police.
He also confessed being responsible for the death of one “Babasco” and one Dapo at Ijebu-Igbo in 2015 during a clash between his group and Aye cult group.
Oyeyemi expressed further investigation revealed that the suspect was the brain behind a series of violent cult related clashes in Ago-Iwoye, Awa-Ijebu, Oru-Ijebu, Ilaponu and Ijebu-Igbo in the recent past.
He added that the state Commissioner of Police, CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of suspect to State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation and subsequent prosecution.
