A student suspected to be a cultist, Ojo Iyanu, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command while attempting to disrupt an examination at the Ogun State Institute of Technology, Igbesa, in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state.
Iyanu’s arrest was disclosed by the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi in a statement on Thursday.
Iyanu on interrogation confessed to being a member of the dreaded Aiye Confraternity.
He confessed further that his group decided to disrupt the examination because the examination came suddenly and met them unprepared.
Speaking on the development, the PPRO said the police were briefed that some students, suspected to be cultists, had concluded plans to disrupt the school examination.
He said the exam was earlier rescheduled after the reconciliation of a disagreement between the school management and the students.
He added that some students who did not prepare for the exam, came up with a plan to ensure that the examination did not hold.
He said upon the intelligence, the DPO Igbesa, SP Abayomi Adeniji, in collaboration with other security agencies such as NSCDC, So-safe Corps and the polytechnic security department, decided to properly screen all the students coming into the examination hall right from the main gate.
He said while the screening was going on, the suspect and one other, who was later identified as Aloma, were intercepted with a black bag.
He said further that while searching the bag, the second boy took to his heels, while Ojo Akinola Iyanu was quickly arrested.
Recovered from the bag was one locally-made pistol loaded with one live cartridge.
The PPRO said the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.
