{"id":47924,"date":"2024-08-19T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-arrest-two-suspected-cultists-in-ogun-2\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:00:42","slug":"police-arrest-two-suspected-cultists-in-ogun-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-arrest-two-suspected-cultists-in-ogun-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest two suspected cultists in Ogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Ogun State Police Command has apprehended two persons on suspicion of their involvement in cult-related activities in Sango-Ota, within the Ado-Odo-Ota Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, identified as Abiodun Salami and Destiny Adeola, were arrested by the Ogun State Anti-Robbery Squad after receiving a tip-off from residents in Ijoko.<\/p>\n<p>The state Command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, disclosed this on Monday, stating that the two individuals were apprehended on August 8, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Odutola said that the suspects, along with other members of the Eiye Confraternity, had gathered at a location in Ijoko.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cWhen they spotted the squad, they scattered in different directions. Salami and Adeola were apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring questioning, Adeola revealed that he was initiated into the Eye Confraternity in 2022 at Atan-Otan.<\/p>\n<p>Odutola stated that the police have intensified efforts to apprehend the other members who escaped.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that items recovered from the scene included a toy silver pistol, locally made amulets and suspected Indian hemp.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrest two suspected cultists in Ogun<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ogun State Police Command has apprehended two persons on suspicion of their involvement in cult-related activities in Sango-Ota, within&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,15,544,310],"tags":[134,1759,387,180,547,99,1758,833],"class_list":["post-47924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","category-news","category-ogun","category-police","tag-arrest","tag-cultists","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-ogun","tag-police","tag-suspected","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}