Security operatives deployed by the state commissioner of police, Abdulmajid Ali, have arrested 120 suspected cultists at various locations in Ogun state.
The detectives attached to the Agbara division of the command last week nabbed 84 suspected cultists in a forest at Imoshe, Igbesa, Ogun state while initiating new members.
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In a statement issued by the command and signed by the state police spokesman, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, three other suspects were also apprehended at Ilaro by policemen on anti crime patrol on Monday August 31, during their meeting in a hideout.
In a related development, working on a tip-off, the Special Anti Robbery Squad, Ogun state, pounced on another group of cultists who called themselves theSeadog at Ijeja area of Abeokuta on Tuesday September 1.
Some of the items recovered from them included; assorted charms, bottles of dry gin, broken bottles, and materials meant for initiation process.
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They have confessed to the crime and the commissioner of police Ogun state, Abdulmajid Ali, immediately ordered that the suspects be handed over to the Department of Criminal Investigation and Intelligence, Eleweran-Abeokuta for proper investigation and prosecution.
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