The CP added that thorough
investigations have begun and that the suspects will be charged to court
accordingly.
About thirty-nine suspected
cultists have been taken into custody by the Imo State Police Command.
They were arrested within
the Nekede axis of Owerri, the state capital.
The suspects were said to
have converged for an initiation party.
While arresting the
suspects, the Imo State Commissioner of Police, CP Taiwo Lakanu, told
journalists at the Command headquarters in Owerri that the Command got the
information of a plan by the cultists, said to be members of AIYE
confraternity, to disrupt the peace of Nekede axis during their initiation
party.
The CP said, “Considering
the spate of cultism in the state and following a tactically coordinated
operation by operatives of the State Police Command through credible source
stormed the initiation party organized by the cultists for new members within
the Nekede area of Owerri.
“On the receipt of the
information, covert operatives of the Command were promptly mobilized and
dispatched to the area to monitor the situation. Notable flashpoints within
Nekede and environs namely, ‘South Africa ‘, ‘Shrine Tree Square’ and Pentagon
Bar Umuofocha’ were surrounded and cordoned off by ever ready operatives.
“As a result, 39 suspected
cultists, who converged in the aforementioned location for initiation and other
cult activities, were rounded up.
“The suspects have made
useful statements confessing their membership of the Aiye confraternity.
Thorough investigation has commenced with the view of charging the suspects to
court accordingly,” Lakanu stated.
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