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<\/p>\nSpokesman for the command, DSP Bala Elkana confirmed the arrest in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n
He said that a 32-year-old man (name withheld), a member of Aiye Confraternity, was arrested on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Elkana said the suspect, arrested by the Cultism Squad while on patrol at Mosafejo Amukoko Street, Ajegunle, was found in possession of one locally-made pistol.<\/p>\n
He stressed that the suspect confessed his gang was responsible for series of violent crimes in Ajengule.<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestigation is ongoing and efforts are in place to apprehend other members of his gang. The suspect will be charged to court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Elkana said on the same day operatives of the Operation Crush from 8 Division in Area H Command, Ogudu raided a cultists\u2019 hideout at Bariga.<\/p>\n
The raid, he said, paid off as a 39-year-old suspected cult leader, a resident of Kajora Street, Bariga, was arrested with 22 members of his gang.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey all confessed to be members of a deadly gang and a cult group responsible for various killings and violent crimes in Bariga.<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestigation is ongoing, and suspects will be charged to court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He noted that a follow-up operation carried out by officers of the Bariga Police Station on Wednesday, at Oyenaya Street, Bariga, led to the arrest of 20-year-old suspect and five other members of his gang.<\/p>\n
Elkana said two other suspected cultists were arrested on July 24 at Itabale Igbolomu area of Owutu, Ikorodu, while engaging each other in a battle for supremacy.<\/p>\n
He said one locally-made pistol was recovered from them, stressing that all the suspects would be charged to court soon.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Police Command in Lagos State have arrested 32 suspected cultists and recovered firearms in the last one week. Spokesman for the command, DSP Bala Elkana confirmed the arrest in a statement on Sunday. He said that a 32-year-old man (name withheld), a member of Aiye Confraternity, was arrested on Saturday. Elkana said the suspect, […]<\/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":[250,61],"class_list":["post-141053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-lagos","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141053","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=141053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141053\/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=141053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}