…Sango-Ijoko residents laud Police over action on cultists
By Kemi Kasumu, General Editor
The Ogun State Police Command has hinted of the arrest it makes of a suspected cyber criminal who hacked into the Facebook account of a law maker representing Ipokia/Idiroko State Constituency in the state House of Assembly, Hon. Ojo Adebowale Viwanu.
This suspect, named Ojo Adebowale, is detailed to be a security guard working with Proton Guard, a private security guard service provider in Lagos.
In a statement issued Abeokuta by the Ogun State Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, who is an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), the suspect was said to have been arrested through tracking.
The statements read in full:
“Men of Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Ojo Adebowale ‘m’ a security guard with Proton Guard Lagos for hacking into the facebook account of a law maker representing Ipokia/Idiroko State constituency in Ogun State house of assembly, Hon. Ojo Adebowale Viwanu
“The suspect was tracked down to Lagos State by detectives attached to Ibara Divisional headquarters where the lawmaker has earlier complained that an unknown person has hacked into his facebook account and using it to defraud unsuspecting members of the public of their hard earned money. The lawmaker revealed that some of his associates has fell victim of the impostor.
“On the strength of his complaint, the DPO Ibara Division Csp Abiodun Bakare detailed some detectives to unravel the person behind the dastardly act. Their efforts paid off when the suspect was eventually technically traced to Lagos where he was arrested. He has made confessional statement to Police.
“The Commissioner of Police Cp Ahmed Iliyasu has ordered that the suspect be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded,” it said.
Sango-Ijoko residents lauds Oyeyemi over action on cultists
In the meantime, residents of Sango/Ijoko Local Council Development Area in Ogun State have sent their words of appreciation to the Ogun State Police Command, particularly its PPRO ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, over his promptness at addressing distress call regarding cultists’ threat to hold procession in the part of the state in the name of holding anniversary.
Oyeyemi, The DEFENDER was told, had been sent a message bothering on the fear that gripped the community as people working in Lagos were in fear of returning home on July 7 thereby asking the police through Oyeyemi for police protection, which he promptly when called on phone, informed had been handed.
A retired Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) leaving in Ijoko and a Shell staff working in Lagos had expressed to The DEFENDER their satisfaction with police prompt actions on that night.
The retired ACP particularly said, “I want to thank you for your promptness. You see, this Ijoko community is a place of wonders, where conspiracy of silence is killing all of the people. If not for those that sent distress call to the police, nobody would have worked on it. I discovered that virtually the leader of the community knew about the information but kept quiet. If whoever called for police protection did not do so, what would have situation have been?” He asked as he said “thank you” to the police.
Another resident, who for security reason demanded anonymity, told our reporter that, “This Ijoko town is the only place in Nigeria that cultists would be so bold that they were passing letters round telling people that they wanted to celebrate anniversary. They told Okada operators and other people and for the fear of their lives, none of them could talk.
“Now, but for the police support, we would have been at the mercy of the cultists who are said to be sons and daughters of landlords within the same Ijoko community and reason why many of the people who should have discussed the problem could not do so. That is coupled with the fact that information going round say some police men in Sango are members of cultists due to what some of the wrongly arrested victims revealed. For this reason, the only solution to cultism in Ijoko or Sango, I know it is all over the South West, can come only from God through the concerted effort of the Ogun State Police Command,” he said.
He then seized the opportunity of the press to speak to the minds of the Sango-Ijoko LCDA people to be courageous against evil by coming out to protect themselves in collaboration with the Nigerian Police citing how the Ikorodu people eventually found solution to Badoo attacks “only when they started coming out as vigilante and being brothers’ keepers.”
Asked to explain being brothers’ keepers he said, “In Ikorodu, if you hear a sound in your neighbour’s house you run to find out if there is any problem requiring support from outside. That was how they were able to arrest many of those evil machines called Badoo cultists. Sango-Ijoko people should brace up and stop locking themselves in the house when security challenges like this occur. By collective action without jungle justice this security issue will be stamped out,” he urged.
