In an effort to identify people responsible for the most recent cult killings, the Ogun State House of Assembly member for Sagamu 2 Constituency, Hon. Ademola Adeniran, also known as Sapele, and the Chairman of Sagamu Local Government, Hon. Afolabi Odulate, were both detained by the Department of State Services (DSS) on Tuesday in the Sagamu region.
According to information obtained by Platinum Times, the DSS interrogated both Odulate and Adeniran at its Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta office on their suspected participation in recent cult skirmishes in Sagamu that claimed about 20 lives.
If memory serves, the DSS previously held Hon. Damilare Bello, a member from Sagamu 1 Constituency, for the same reason.
The DSS has continued to look into members of both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), despite the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu, declaring on Sunday that the cultists in Sagamu were neither students nor political party members.
However, according to information provided by a reliable source, Odulate and Sapele were released on Wednesday while Hon Bello, who was apprehended around six days ago, is still being held by the DSS.
The DSS and other security services have consequently been used as an instrument of the APC and its government’s witch hunt, according to the PDP in Ogun State.
Akinloye Bankole, the PDP’s spokesman in Ogun, claimed that the DSS gave in to pressure and released Odulate and Adeniran while keeping Bello detained.
Despite the chairman’s connection to some of the cultists being discovered, according to Bankole, the DSS freed the pair.
Bankole said in a statement that,
“For us, as a responsive and responsible political entity, we condemn, in very strong terms, and also frown at the haste at which the DSS has left the duo of Hon Odulate, in particular, off the hook while a very strong and vibrant opposition figure, Hon. Damilare Bello, “DRE”, the representative of Sagamu 1 State Constituency who was arrested before them, still languish in DSS facility.
“With the release of these APC top guns, it has become increasingly clear, even to the blind, that there is a concluded plot to cover up all details about the Saganu killings.
“How else does any discerning mind explain a situation when somebody who was found with absolutely nothing incriminating is left to rot in chains while notorious elements like Ogbeni Afolabi Odulate, with records of gun-running is allowed to go home because of his links with a ruling party?
“This is indeed a most tragic moment for the innocent members of Sagamu town and Ogun State in general.”