Twelve members of cults and 16 other people have been put on trial by the Ekiti State Police Command for robbery, conspiracy, and drug possession.
According to Ogundare Dare, the commissioner of police (CP), two armed robbers attacked Omotosho Sunday on September 18 in his home in the Omisanjana neighborhood and stole his TVS motorcycle, which was worth N700,000.
According to him, on September 22, at around 9:00 a.m., agents from the command in Aramoko-Ekiti nabbed serial burglar Ajayi Opeyemi in his hideout. In Aramoko-Ekiti, he had broken into more than five homes and businesses.
“400 pairs of jean trousers, shirts, short knickers, jackets, face caps, underwear, women’s accessories, lingerie goods, assorted wines, provisions, and food stuff worth N3m were recovered as exhibits when a search was conducted in the suspect’s home.”
The CP also claimed that on September 24, in response to a tip-off, thugs were detained in their hideout while smoking hemp and yelling slogans from the Eiye hidden cult, and that on September 27, members of the Buccaneer Confraternity were detained in a hotel in Ado-Ekiti.