Police to crackdown on cult groups

This may not be the best of times for cult groups in Lagos, as the state police command has vowed to crackdown on any illegal gathering of cultists in any part of the state.

 The warning was contained in a statement issued by Chike Oti, spokesperson of the Lagos police command, in which he quoted Imohimi Edgal, Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of Lagos, as warning unlawful secret societies like Aiye, Eiye, Black Axe, Buccaneers, etc planning to converge in several undisclosed locations within Lagos to “shelve their plan or risk arrest and the full weight of the law.”

The CP in a statement said the command has received credible intelligence that some members of cult groups were going about town serving notices to rival cult gangs on their planned meeting.

Edgal, warned that any such gathering by members of the unlawful society would be viewed as an unlawful assembly with the intent to commit felony, adding that those who go ahead would be visited with the wrath of the law.

“The authorities of the Lagos police command have received credible intelligence that members of some unlawful societies such as the Aiye, Eiye, Black Axe, Buccaneers, etc, are going round town serving notices to rival cult gangs in the neighbourhood that they would be converging on Saturday, July 7, 2018 at  yet to be disclosed locations within their domains.

“According to available information, the 7th day of the 7th month is sacred to these outlaws. It is also a day they settle scores with rival cult groups and a day of outright brigandage and anomie,” the CP said.

He warned that no cult group would be allowed to compromise the peace daily nurtured by men and women of goodwill in the state and maintained by the police.

The police therefore urged members of the public not to hesitate to blow the whistle on these brigands anywhere they are found.

The police boss urged parents to warn their children who are members of the nefarious associations not only to renounce cultism, but denounce it in all its ramifications.