Police arrest 2 suspects over murder of OPC member in Ogun

For allegedly assassinating a member of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC), Kolawole Ajomale, two suspected cultists have been arrested by the Ogun state Police Command.

The suspects, Korede Pariosho and Jide Afolabi, were arrested following an intelligence based investigation embarked upon by detectives at Ijebu-Igbo Police Division, led by the Divisional Police Officer, Kazeem Solotan.

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The police had arrested the suspects at their hide-out on April 7, two days after the said crime, just as the gun used in the killing was also recovered.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the hoodlums had attacked their victim in his house situated at No. 20 Odo Balogun Street, Oke Sapen, in Ijbeu-Igbo, where the deceased was shot on the head and stomach in the presence of his pregnant wife, consequent upon which the victim died on the spot.

According to the Ogun state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspects have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIIC) for discreet investigation.

Oyeyemi said: “Since then incident, police has been on their trail before they were finally apprehended following painstaking intelligence and technical investigation.

“On interrogation, the two suspects confessed killing the deceased, but they claimed to have done it in revenge of the death of one member of their cult group whom they alleged was killed by OPC men in 2017. 

“They further confessed to have vowed since then that any member of OPC seen will be killed in vengeance of the death of their late colleague.

“Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation and prosecution.”