{"id":16456,"date":"2026-11-13T02:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T02:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/policeman-eight-others-arrested-over-cultism-kidnapping-in-oyo\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T02:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T02:31:15","slug":"policeman-eight-others-arrested-over-cultism-kidnapping-in-oyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/policeman-eight-others-arrested-over-cultism-kidnapping-in-oyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Policeman, eight others arrested over cultism, kidnapping in Oyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police in Oyo State have arrested a serving police corporal and eight other suspects in separate operations involving alleged cultism and kidnapping.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Force Public Relations Officer, Ani Iniedu, disclosed in a police operational success released on Thursday that operatives of the Command Monitoring Unit, Oyo Operational Base, raided a suspected Aiye Confraternity hideout on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He added that five suspects were arrested during the operation, including a policeman identified as Corporal Olayinka Oluwatobi, who was attached to MOPOL 72, Ago-Are, and seconded to Sports Eleyele, Ibadan, the state capital.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He stated, \u201cOn 08\/11\/2026, operatives of the Command Monitoring Unit (Oyo Operational Base) carried out a coordinated raid on an Aiye Confraternity hideout.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cFive suspects were arrested, including F\/No. 538195 Cpl Olayinka Oluwatobi, who was attached to Mopol 72 Ago Are and seconded to Sports Eleyele, Ibadan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cOther suspects include Ayandiran Samuel (the fraternity\u2019s armourer) and Adeyinka Qudus (the cult leader).\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He added that the operation led to the recovery of an English-made Beretta pistol and three locally fabricated pistols.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The case, according to the police spokesman, had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department in Ibadan for investigation. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0In a separate operation, Iniedu noted that operatives of the Command Monitoring Unit, working with the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, rescued one Abubakar Amidu at the Oteon\/Odi Owo Forest on November 8.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He noted that four suspects were arrested in connection with the abduction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He continued, \u201cAbubakar Amidu, 30, who was abducted on 31\/10\/2026, was rescued unhurt at Oteon\/Odi Owo Forest on 08\/11\/2026.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The rescue operation was carried out by operatives of the Command Monitoring Unit and the Vigilante Group of Nigeria.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cFour suspects were arrested, including Abdullahi Bello, Mohammed Kontagora, Alhaji Ali, and Usman Alhaji Ali.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Iniedu added that the victim\u2019s mobile phone and the chain and lock allegedly used to restrain him were recovered during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He concluded that investigation into the two incidents was ongoing, while efforts to track other possible suspects continued.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police in Oyo State have arrested a serving police corporal and eight other suspects in separate operations involving alleged cultism and kidnapping. \u00a0The Force Public Relations Officer, Ani Iniedu,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}