BY DAUD OLATUNJI

ABEOKUTA — THE Ogun State Police Command  said, weekend,  that it would probe some local government officials in Yewa South Local Government Area over  the burning of a  building suspected to be a ritualist den.

The command also said that it had commenced investigation into the case which it described as arson that occurred in Ilaro when some angry youths burnt down the house belonging to Gabriel  Olafenwa at  32, Dosumu Street, Orita, Ilaro in Ogun State.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement said some officials of Yewa South Local Government Area of the state  have been indicted in the arson.
It was gathered from a reliable source that some health workers were directed by the deputy chairman of the council to search Olafenwa’s house, having suspected that the house was being used  by ritualists.

Vanguard also gathered that in the process, some angry mob hijacked it and set the house ablaze.
An  eye witness told Vanguard that the occupants of the house, including the owner and his seven children, escaped being lynched by the mob following the intervention of policemen who arrived the scene and dispersed them.

Some of the children were said to have lost their credentials to the inferno as the house was burnt to ashes.
Reacting to the  incident, Adejobi said: “The Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, has ordered the Department of Criminal Investigation, Eleweran, Abeokuta to take over the case as there were some questions to be answered by certain individuals and some council officials in the area.

“The command will not tolerate any act of hooliganism or violence that will be inimical to the existing peaceful security networking in Ogun State.”
Meantime, the state Police Command has said it had arrested  seven suspects for allegedly attempting to kill a man in Oke Ola area of Ilese-Ijebu in the state.

According to the PPRO, one Dare Okanlawon of Ijebu Imushin entered a restaurant belonging to one Mrs Queen Omonigho at Oke Ola Ilese Ijebu to have his breakfast when the owner of the restaurant met him asking questions from her daughter and she raised a false alarm of attempted kidnap.