Police arrest gang in shrine for hypnotising, defrauding victims

A team of police ZIS operatives has arrested a gang of three males and one female who specialised in hypnotising and defrauding their victims.

They were arrested in their shrine in Aiyedire Local Government area of Osun State at the point of obtaining the sum of N3.5 million from a victim.

Assistant Inspector of Police (AIG) in charge of zon 2, C.K. Aderanti, while disclosing this said that the suspects had earlier defrauded a victim of N3.5 million in Abeokuta Ogun State.

Items recovered from them, according to him, included fake foreign currencies, horrifying statues, charms, one Honda Pilot SUV and one Toyota Sienna bus.

Also, t operatives while on routine anti-crime patrol arrested three suspects in a case of robbery at Isale Ake area of Abeokuta.

Two motorcycles were recovered while one other suspect was still at large.

The AIG disclosed that the Zone 2 ‘X’ Squad arrested one Stanley Akanno ‘m’ and one Olakunle Hassan ‘m’, both teachers in a private primary school in the Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos State for serially defiling their six year old female pupil (name withheld for privacy reasons) for over a period of months.

He said that investigations revealed that during extra mural classes, the teachers showed pornography on their laptop to the pupil and made her practice same on them.

Aderanti said that the pupil was later taken to a government hospital where it was medically established that she had been deflowered.

He assured that the suspects will soon be charged to court.