The Kwara State Police
Command has presented 16 suspected hoodlums and 11 cultists that were allegedly
terrorising innocent people within Ilorin metropolis.
The State’s Commissioner of
Police, Aminu Saleh disclosed this on Wednesday, while presenting the suspects
at the police headquarters Ilorin to newsmen.
Saleh said that 11 cultists
were arrested on September 15, while they were fighting at their hide-out named
‘evil spirit’, along Amilegbe area, Ilorin.
He said the suspected cultists
arrested were Idowu Ibrahim, Sikiru Ganiyu, Kareem Jamiu, Akeem Wahab, Musa
Aremu and Afolabi Ibrahim.
Others were Usman Salihu,
Ganiyu Alabi, Janet Victoria, Hassanat Abdulahi and Mustapha Teslim.
He also said that 5
suspected hoodlums were arrested on September 24 with a Mazda registration
number FUF 646 XA Kwara taxi colour, in which they used to defraud innocent
commuters.
He said further that the
suspects were Adebayo Akeem, Sesan Ogunga, Owoyemi Gbenga, Sebile Oluwafemi and
Ayoola Isaac.
He said the suspects
conspired and defrauded one Adekeye Feyisayo, Bilikis Abdulkareem and five
other victims, of their money totalling N3.5million by deceiving them with fake
foreign currencies.
The police boss said that
12 suspected hoodlums were arrested on September 25 during police patrol along
Fate and Sango area, Ilorin and when they were searched, one locally made
pistol, one live cartridge, one Dane gun, some parcel of weeds suspected to be
India hemp among others were recovered from them.
According to him, the names
of the suspects are Abdurasheed Sakariyahu, Saadu Laro, Shola Olatunji, Raheem
Ismaila, Emmanuel Adeniyi, Segun Fagbemi, Olarewaju Iliasu, Ibrahim Babatunde,
Abubakar Nureni Oladimeji Abdullahi, Owolabi Wasiu and Abubakar Ibrahim.
The CP advised the members
of the public to always provide useful information to the police and urged them
to be vigilant of happenings around their environment.
He said the suspects would
be charged to court after the investigation.
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