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Oyo Police Apprehend 9 Cultists, Recover Gun, Others




The Oyo State Police Command on Wednesday paraded nine suspected cultists arrested in Oyo town.

Briefing newsmen at the Command headquarters, the State Police Commissioner, CP Vivian Ngozi Onadeko disclosed that the DPO of Atiba Division of the Oyo State Police command upon information that some cultists were gathering to do their handling over and also to do their initiation of some new members, swung into action and nine of the cultists were arrested.

CP Onadeko stressed that ” the cultists after thorough interrogation confessed to the crime, and they also confessed that they are all members of Eye Confraternity, some of them are going for initiation while some of them are going to hand over to the new executives.”


“I will still continue to enjoy parents and guardians to talk to their wards, and to their children, they should know what they are doing, like those arrested now, their parents thought they were in school, but you can see what they have ended up doing,” she said

Speaking further, CP Onadeko listed weapons recovered from the cultists as a locally made gun, machete, among other dangerous weapons, and that, at times some of the cultists also engage in armed robbery.

“So we will continue doing our duties to make sure that Oyo State is safe and secure”, Onadeko said.

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