POLICE ARREST NOTORIOUS EIYE CONFRATERNITY MEMBER FOR ALLEGEDLY ATTACKING LODGERS IN A HOTEL IN ABEOKUTA
The Ogun State police command has arrested a suspected member of the Eiye Confraternity, Esuruoso Tunde, for allegedly attacking lodgers at a hotel in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The suspect was arrested on Monday at the Ladis Hotel, Ebenezer Junction, Obantoko, Abeokuta.
He was arrested following a distress call received by policemen attached to the Obantoko divisional headquarters that the hotel was under attack by suspected cultists.
Security operatives led by the Obantoko Divisional Police Office, SP Ignatius Alimiekena, mobilised a patrol team and moved to the scene where the suspect was nabbed.
A search was conducted on everybody on the premises and a locally-fabricated double-barrelled shotgun with one expended cartridge was found on Esuruoso Tunde.
Upon interrogation, the suspect confessed to being a member of the Eiye Confraternity, and that the gun was handed over to him by one of his colleagues popularly known as Scatter.
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