Cultism: Police Draw Battle Line With Ogun Students Over Detained SUG President

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

The Ogun State Police command has threatened to arrest any student engaging in protest in the state over the detention of the suspended Students Union President of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Adegboye Olatunji.

Recall that Olatunji was arrested and detained by the police for alleged involvement in cult activities, an allegation that was refuted by the embattled SUG president. He said he was charmed to the initiation ground.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Sunday, in a statement vowed to arrest any student engaging in protest and would be dealt with through the arms of the law.

Oyeyemi, in a statement, said, “An intelligence report at the disposal of Ogun State Police command indicated that some misguided students are planning to stage a statewide protest in Ogun state in solidarity with the suspended SUG president of Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, who was recently arrested for cultism.

Warning that it will not fold its hand in the event of a protest, he said that
“anybody or group that makes any attempt to throw the state into unnecessary chaos will be made to feel the full weight of the law.”

Meanwhile, the National Association of Nigerian Students had earlier threatened to embark on a statewide protest over the arrest of Olatunji on Monday.

The Ogun chairman of NANS, Tomiwa Bamgbose, in a statement, on Sunday, said students across the state would embark on a mass protest to demand the “unconditional release” of the SUG president.

Bamgbose added that the protest, which will hold across the state on Monday, would be a solidarity protest by the students against the alleged injustice levied against Olatunji.

The NANS chairman also insisted that there was no iota of truth in the allegation by the Police that the embattled SUG President is a cultist.

Part of the statement reads, “NANS OGUN JCC hereby uses this medium to notify all gallant and ever combatant Nigerian students about tomorrow’s (Monday) peaceful protest to demand the immediate and unconditional release of the SUG president, Ilaro.

“It is no longer news that the President was arrested last week Sunday as a result of a conspiracy against his good intention to liberate his fellow students.

“I write with total bitterness in my heart to inform all Nigerian students that Comrade Olatunji after being tortured to confess what he knows nothing about by the police has sustained a lot of injury in the detention.”

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