Offa: Police arrest Vice President of Poly SUG, others

Police in Kwara State, on Tuesday said it had arrested the Vice
President of the Federal Polytechnic Offa Students' Union Government.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Aminu Saleh said the VP,
Tajudeen Selim, was arrested for alleged involvement in cultism in
Offa Poly, in the Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State.

The CP said that other Offa Poly students: Temitope Omotosho, Adewusi
Vincent, an ex-student of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Olanipekun
Abimbola, and another suspect, Ayomide Ololade, were arrested for
alleged involvement in cultism.

The police commissioner said this through the command's Police Public
Relations Officer, Mr Ajayi Okasanmi, while parading the suspects in
Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

He said, "These cultists from the Federal Polytechnic Offa blatantly
refused to heed our warning and were rounded up by the Anti-Cultism
Unit of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department,
during the process of initiating new members in preparation for an
attack."

Saleh said Akinsebikan George and Gbolahan Ogunleye, were newly
initiated, adding that the red and white regalia of Aiye
Confraternity, razor blade, calabash and one live cartridge were
recovered from the suspects.

But speaking with reporters, Selim, who is a HND two student in the
Department of Quantity Surveying, said he was not a cultist.

He said, "Someone came here to accuse us that we are cultists. Since I
became the Vice President of the Offa Polytechnic Students' Union
Government, I have not recorded any cult clash.

"I have always been there to settle any problem that could arise. If
there is any fracas in the school, the Students' Union Government
would direct me to intervene. That is the reason why I was there.

"I was there the day they arrested the suspected cultists on behalf of
the union so that there will be peace on our campus."