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<\/p>\nThe Public Relations Officer of the state police command, SP Haruna Mohammed disclosed this on Thursday in a press release made available to newsmen in Awka, the Anambra state capital.<\/p>\n
He said the development was in the command\u2019s determination to sustain the ongoing manhunt for secret cult members, which he said had become a major social problem in the state.<\/p>\n
Mohammed said the operation was carried out by police operatives attached to the command\u2019s \u2018Operation Puff Adder\u2019 in conjunction with Special Anti Cult Unit.<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cAt Abba\/Abagana axis, 15 suspected cultists were arrested; at Ukwulu, six suspected cultists were arrested; at Oko\/Amaokpola\/Awgbu axis eight suspected cultists were arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said 24 of the suspects were arrested at Nteje, Ogidi, Amawbia, Urum and Ihiala areas of the State on different dates.<\/p>\n
He listed exhibits recovered from the suspects to include four Axes , three cutlasses, some quantities of dry leaves suspected to be cannabis sativa and a substance suspected to be cocaine.<\/p>\n
The PPRO said from the arrests, 15 were screened out, nine were charged to court while 29 were undergoing investigation.<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cIn a related development, police detectives attached to Ogidi Division in conjunction with Puff Adder operatives, following intelligence report had stormed the hideout of a notorious armed robbery suspect, one Emeka at Ikenga Ogidi and recovered a double barrel Pistol.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuspect on sighting the Police escaped through the back door and effort is ongoing to get him arrested in order to bring him to Justice.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested 53 persons suspected to be cultists, during a raid of criminal hideouts in the State. The Public Relations Officer of the state police command, SP Haruna Mohammed disclosed this on Thursday in a press release made available to newsmen in Awka, the Anambra state capital. He said the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}