Police arrest 80 suspected cultists in 4 months in Lagos

<p>Hundeyin said the operatives arrested 10 others, including a female member at Iba Okokomaiko after they allegedly killed one Ojo Lion.</p>, <span>Suspected cultists paraded in Lagos on Friday. NAN</span>, <h2>No fewer than 80 suspected cultists have been arrested between April and July 14, 2023 in Lagos State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.</h2>, <p>NAN recalls that in April, 42 suspected cultists, allegedly belonging to different groups were arrested at different places within the state, while 17 others were also arrested in June.</p>, <p>The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, on Friday paraded 27 suspects, while 20 of them were suspected cultists.</p>, <p>Hundeyin said the suspects paraded were arrested within three weeks, stressing that cultism had become a major crime giving the command worries.</p>, <p>According to him, Mushin, Ikorodu, Okokomaiko, Ebute-Metta, Obalende and Lekki-Ajah, Shomolu, Badagry are areas where the suspects have their bases.</p>, <p>The image maker said that in many of the arrests, police had recovered dangerous weapons, including ammunition, guns, cutlasses, knives, charms of all kinds and their Barrets representing their groups.</p>, <p>Hundeyin appealed to members of the public to join hands in bringing this menace to an end in Lagos state.</p>, <p>He said amongst those paraded also were suspected armed robbers, murder and suspected vandal.</p>, <p>“From all these cases which we successfully cracked, we recovered a total of six arms, 12 live ammunition, one knife, two motorcycles, one vehicle and sim cards,” he said.</p>, <p>Explaining further, Hundeyin said on June 30th, at about 2.00 p.m., based on credible intelligence, some group of boys suspected to be members of Kesari Confraternity were planning to retaliate their leader’s death on other rival cult members in Mushin area of the state.</p>, <p>He said police operatives of the command swung into action and arrested five suspects who were between ages 20 and 27.</p>, <p>The spokesperson said the suspect