Police Burst 419 Syndicate’s Shrine In Osogbo
Osun State Police command has dismantled a 419 shrine at Oke-Woru, Gbaemu area in Osogbo, capital of Osun State.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Fimihan Adeoye, led police detectives for the operation, where one of the suspects was arrested.
CP Adeoye told journalists that police detectives are on the trail of other members of the gang, assuring that they would be apprehended to face the full wrath of the law.
One of the arrested suspects, Oyegbile Durojaye confessed to the crime and said that the shrine was set up to dupe people on the pretence of helping them to overcome their spiritual problems.
He explained that the shrine was set up by a gang of nine fraudsters who met inside a police cell in Lagos and resolved to venture into the fraud business as a way of making money.
The suspect said “We are nine in this business. We met inside a police cell in Lagos and we became friends. It was from there that we planned this business. We are using Osogbo as the base and we set up the shrine here.”
“We usually bring our victims from Lagos and finish the deal here in the shrine in Osogbo. We are using this whole building and no one enters here without being scared. But it is a mere costume. We have some women among us whose role was to act as witches”.
“We have special rooms decorated in a scary way and we have one elderly man among us whose role was to act as spirit. My role is to bring our victims to Osogbo from Lagos and present such person to the witches and the spirit in the dead of the night. Then, the witches and the spirit would tell such person to make his demands and pay”, the suspect confessed.
