The Ogun State Police Command, Abeokuta notable for compliance with the Fundamental Human Rights in educating officers of the command in adherence to global policing standard, and ensuring modern techniques in security matters has come to put it integrity into test, only recently the State Commissioner of Police, CP Alamutu Abiodun Mustapha engaged personnel’s when an Abuja security consultant was invited to the state for better education on security tips . Though the recent development in Ogun State is very disturbing as some online media tried to make rubbish of the vehement training of the State personnel’s.
The Ogun State Police Command has come to put to rest the raging rumour that the command has a hand in the developing death scenario of a suspect in it’s custody.
Stating recently in a report sighted, Sagamu town has witness series of cult clashes where five rival cultists were murdered. The earlier disturbing incidence has made the CP Alamutu Abiodun Mustapha Psc, to have visited the Sagamu Community severally. Needless to remind us that Sagamu is a hotbed for criminals and criminalities.
On recent development, “an intelligence report that suspected cultists on the wanted list of Ogun State Police Command, were within Atoyo area of Sagamu, on Saturday 18th November 2023, the police swung into action on a covert operation where two suspected cultists were apprehended. Oduyiga Seyi Samson “m” 39 years and Gbenga Adegoke ‘m’ notorious members of Buccaneer and Eiye confraternity were arrested”.
According to the Spokeperson of the Command SP Odutola, during Interrogation, both Seyi and Gbenga made a confessional statement to being members of the outlawed Buccaneer and Eiye confraternity Secret cult. Seyi confessed he was initiated in 2015.
The awkward scenario couple with the negative publicity by certain online Publishers is uncalled for and unnecessary, it’s figment of imagination of the writers. As stated earlier the Ogun State Police Command is in grabs with commitment to upholding fundamental human rights laws, particularly when it comes to treatment of suspects while in custody. Torture is strictly against our protocols and principles, the command is well versed in the legal framework that safeguards the rights of individuals in custody, free from all forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment .
Narrating the cumulative incidence that lead to the death of the suspect, “the deceased was already charged for Cult related activities and he was taken to Court on Thursday, 23rd November 2023 where he was to be arraigned before a special Court on cultism case in Isabo Abeokuta, but the honourable Court did not sit, and he was brought back to Eleweran in Abeokuta the same Thursday. Seyi was to be taken back to the court at the next available day that the Court will sit, which is on Friday, 24th November 2023”.
Preceding to Friday, 24th November, at about 0500 hours, “Seyi went berserk, shouting, bitting with teeth, and assaulted other suspects in the cell until he got exhausted. Other suspects in the cell alerted policemen on duty. He was taken to the police hospital and later to Ijaye General Hospital Abeokuta, along with other suspects he gave bites in the cell for medical treatment against infection. Other suspects were treated and discharged, but Seyi, while on medical attention, later gave up the ghost’.
The Ogun State Police Command, hereby state in categorical terms that “every other allegation is hereby debunked as the accurate position is what has been stated above”.
The Ogun State Police Command has taken the body of the deceased for medical examination to ascertain the cause of death of the deceased as soon as the autopsy report about the deceased is out, the Police will give further details, the statement revealed.
However, the Commissioner of police, CP Alamutu Abiodun Mustapha, commiserates with the deceased family and assure them that the cause of death of their son will be medically revealed with the autopsy result. The Spokeperson of the state SP Omolola Odutola has stated in the report privy to ARs
