Police Advice Religious Bodies Against Having Programmes In Isolated Places

Kazeem Badmus

THE Osun State Police Command has advised religious bodies against having programmes late in the evening or early morning, especially in isolated places.

Police Public Rela ons Officer in the state, Yemisi Opalola, gave the advice at the Command’s headquarters, in Osogbo on Tuesday, while parading some suspects.

The suspects were arrested for allegedly a acking members of a Celes al Church located in Odu Village near Osogbo, during a vigil at the early hours of Tuesday.

According to Opalola, the suspects abducted 12 members of the church, but the vic ms escaped from their captors when they ran into some hunters and other local volunteers that responded to the distress call.

During the incident, a member of the church, whose iden ty was not revealed, was reportedly raped by the perpetrators.

Narra ng what transpired, a musician, who was invited by the pastor in charge of the church to the vigil, Esther Ayo-