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Why cultism remains the greatest challenge in Ogun – CP

The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson has attributed the cause of major violent crime in the society to cultism, insisting that the greatest security challenge confronting the State is cultism.

The Commissioner spoke when the student community in the State, comprising representatives of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOSS), National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS), among others met with him at his office in the Command’s headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.

The meeting was facilitated by the State government through the office of the Special Adviser to the Governor Dapo Abiodun on Students Affairs, Comrade Azeez Adeyemi.

Ebrimson who was responding to the students’ allegation of ill-treatment by operatives of the State Police Command, said the student leaders must support the police with vital information that would help in fighting cultism and other criminal acts in the State.

The students had accused the police of unlawful arrest, harassment and intimidation of students in the State, stressing that students in the State had lost their confidence in the ability of police to protect them.
They also accused the police of alleged constant victimisation and violation of their fundamental human rights, saying many of them had been arrested by the police who often accused them of being internet fraudsters, popularly known as “yahoo boys”.

But Ebrimson dissociated his men from the allegations of the students, saying “some people have just made up their minds to give the police a bad name and hang it.”

His words, “I want to unequivocally say that I dissociate myself from whoever that says there is bad relationship between the police and the students. We (police) are here to protect each and every one of you (students). We are here to make sure that you carry out your studies without any hindrance. We want to give you space, an environment that is very conducive for you to learn, graduate and leave.”

Ben Idah

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