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Two suspected cult members of Black axe cult group popularity known as Aiye were in the early hours of Sunday arrested in different locations by operatives of ogun state police command.
The two suspects,, were arrested following a distress call received by SWAT operatives that the group are engaging in a supremacy battle with another rival cult group at Elega/Iberekodo axis of Abeokuta metropolis.
According to a press statement by the image maker of Ogun Police Command, DSP, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the two suspects wee identified as Habeeb Muideen aka oko 8 and one Ibrahim aka ayin
Oyeyemi disclosed that after a distress call about the activities of the cultists , the commander SWAT CSP Kalejaye Olanrewaju quickly led his men to the scene.
“On sighting the policemen, the cultists ran to different direction but were hotly chased and Habeeb Muideen was arrested at Iberekodo while Ibrahim was apprehended at Ajitadun area of the metropolis.
The two suspects are currently undergoing interrogation at SWAT office to determine their roles in the clash which left one eiye member dead. Recovered from the arrested suspects are battle axes and assaulted charms.
Oyeyemi further said that the Command in its effort to clampdown on the activities of cultists in the State have arrested Not less than 37 members of various cult group .
Meanwhile, the commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered a comprehensive manhunt for the fleeing members of the groups.
