In bid to to reposition and reinvigorate the Lagos State Police Command’s Anti-Cultism Squad, the Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, has redeployed the Officer-in-Charge of the Squad, Godwin Agbegbe.

Edgal replaced Agbegbe, a Superintendent of Police with a Chief Superintendent of Police Akaninyene Etuk who has been posted to take over from him.

Similarly, he relieved all members of the squad of their duty posts and directed them to report to the Police Headquarters for debriefing.

According to Edgal, the reorganisation of the squad was necessitated by unprofessional conducts of its personnel and corruption in the unit, saying it was also to revitalise the outfit, believed to be very crucial in the fight against cultists and cultism in the state by infusing it with fresh blood for better service delivery.

He warned that the same treatment awaits any other unit in the command that was working at cross purposes with the fundamental objectives of the Nigeria Police.

The Police Boss who spoke through Police Public Relations Officer, Chike Oti said Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and Head of Departments must increase supervision of their men in order to ensure non violation of the police Standard Operating Procedure.

Oti, a Chief Superintendent of Police urged members of the public with useful information about the activities of cultists in any part of the state to reach Chief Superintendent of Police Etuk on GSM number 08034448617.