LUCKY AKRA
Police operatives attached to Morogbo Division of the Lagos State Command on Sunday, 13th June, 2021, at about 10am, arrested seven suspected cultists while they were having meeting in a hotel.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the Police also recovered assorted charms, arms and ammunition as exhibits during the raid.
Their arrest followed a tip off from the management of House 2 Hotel, Igbekele Morogbo, Lagos State, that some boys suspected to be cultists were holding a meeting at the hotel.
The Police moved into action and arrested seven suspected cultists while others were said to have escaped and now at large.
The suspects were Hameed Salami, 35, Ogunlade Adewale, 30, Sunday Ogbemudia, 36, Okekunle Segun, 26, Imole Kingsley, 23, Rasak Lekan, 26 and Osuya Innocent, 23.
Items recovered from them included one locally made pistol, two live cartridges, one axe, assorted charms.
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered that the case be transferred to the Command’s Special Squad, Ikeja, for discreet investigation.
CP Hakeem Odumosu however, reiterated the Command’s commitment to continually tackle cultism and all sorts of crimes and criminality in Lagos State as all hands are on deck to improve on the already established security architecture of the state.
CYRIACUS IZUEKWE A 27-year-old man, Ovie Michael, was on Tuesday arraigned before an Ojo Magistrate…
The Head of the Women’s Wing of Africa Blue Economy Roundtable - ABER, Barr. Sophie…
UGOCHUKWU UGWUANYI People are usually skeptical of organisations - a disposition that lingers until they’ve…
CYRIACUS IZUEKWE A 28-year-old man, Idris Kelani, has been remanded in prison following his arraignment…
WISDOM ONIEKPAR IKULI The title of this piece is coined from the story of Israelites…
The Executive Chairman of Ojodu LCDA, Lagos State, Hon Segun Odunmbaku, has called on youths…