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By Rasaq Adebayo
The Lagos Police Command said it has arrested some suspected teenage cultists who came from Ogun State to cause mayhem in Lagos State.
The police said the four suspected cultists were arrested on Friday, April 16 by the police operatives attached to Alakuko Division of the Lagos State while on reprisal attack mission on other rival cult members at Junior Secondary Schools, Akinyele, Alakuko, Lagos State.
The suspects, who are all males according to the police, include Tosin Balogun, 18 years; Sunday Dare, 15 years; Olayinka Jubril, 14 years and Sani Ayomide Babatunde, 15 years.
Tosin Balogun and Jubril Olayinka are said to be students of Odewale Community High School, Ijoko Ogun State; Sanni Babatunde is a student of Tunik International School, Dalemo Alakuko while Dare Sunday is a tailoring apprentice at Dalemo Alakuko.
The Police said they have foiled the planned reprisal attacks on their rivals in the school and raced to the scene immediately the suspects arrived to cause pandemonium and attack their targets.
“Items like cutlasses, weeds suspected to be Indian hemp and assorted charms were recovered from them,” the police spokesperson, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said.
In another development, Adejobi said the operatives of D9 (Anti Robbery) Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba has also arrested a gang of armed robbers/suspected cultists.
The suspects, Victor Alfred, Chubike Ikeh Donatus, and Isiaka Olamide all 19 years of age were said to have been arrested based on information gathered on them by the police.
They were arrested in Saturday, Apeil 17, 2021 at Marble Guest House, No 33 Ajibike Street, Ogudu Ojota, at about 3.25m.
One Beretta pistol, weeds suspected to be Indian hemp and assorted charms were recovered from them.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered that the suspected cultists be moved to the Command’s Special Squad, Ikeja, for proper investigation and possible arrest of other members of their gang, while the suspected armed robbers be properly investigated and profiled by the Anti Robbery Section of the State CID.
The police boss reiterated his commitment to eradicating cult related crises and other forms of criminality in Lagos State; and making the state very hot for the survival and operations of any cult or armed robbery group in the state.
