One hundred and thirty-seven persons suspected to be cult members were arrested by the Lagos State Police Command during initiation and marking of their annual ritual day.

According to the command, the suspects were arrested while celebrating seven/seven under the guise that they were having a birthday party, at different locations in Ikorodu and Ogombo areas, suburbs of Lagos.

Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal while parading the suspects at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja, said the command had last thursday warned cultists preparing to observe their sacred day called the seventh day of the seventh month, not to converge on any part of the state.

Edgal said the command also encouraged good Nigerians to give information about any group of persons anywhere they were seen, saying based on credible intelligence available to the command and which was communicated to the Officer In-Charge, Anti Cultism, one hundred and twenty suspects were arrested at Ikorodu where they were observing the day.

He said the suspects were undergoing initiation rites preparatory to unleashing mayhem on the larger society, saying seventeen suspected cult members were also arrested at Ogombo, Aja area of the state during initiation rites and celebration of the date.

According to him, he had ordered that they should be profiled, after which their parents and guardians would be invited for questioning.

Edgal warned parents, guardians and those that had some form of mentorship to dissuade the youths from cultism, saying it was their responsibility to know who their children associate with and that this particular police administration would not tolerate any form of cultism.

He said one big banner with zero, seven and black axe logo, a yellow keg containing three litres of liquid substance and six other small kegs with similar contents suspected to be mixture of different dangerous drugs were recovered from them, saying other exhibits were one big clay pot, one small calabash and one locally-made cut to size pistol.

The police boss who said they were going to be divided into smaller groups where files would be opened for them and they would be charged to court after profiling, listed their names to include; Nifemi Fadairo Female; Okunlew Habibat Female; Musiliu Taiwo Female; Olanike Lasisi Female; Sulimon Kabiru Female;
Olarenwaju Zainab Female; Oyedele Elezabeth Female; Alima Olowu Female; Abosede Popoola Female; Ebele Joseph Female; Onuwka Uchena Male; Olawaseyi Elijah 38yrs Male; Abayomi Opeyemi 30yrs Male; Boluwatife Akionla 18yrs Male; Henry Ikuesan 25yrs Male; Ibenewa Femi 21yrs Male;.

Others are; Muize Onabanjo 21yrs Male; Lawal Mumuni 17yrs Male; Abidemi Caleb 23yrs Male; Adedeji Segun 17yrs Male; Mohammed Ibrahim 31yrs Male; Samuel Olusegun 32yrs Male; Ibrahim Alibaba 30yrs Male; Ezekiel Apanaday 22yrs Male’; Ayodele Ahmed 27yrs Male; Denis Kingsley 28yrs Male’; Babtunde Ademola 27yrs ‘Male’; Akinpelu Bukola 30yrs Female’; Oladeji Faridat 25yrs Female’; Bilikisu Iliasu 23yrs Female’; Oluwakemi Kolejo 24yrs Female’; Awolesi Sekinatu 23yrs Female’; Jimoh Bidemi 27yrs Female’; Bukola Fatai 23yrs Female’; Saheed Babtunde 26yrs Male’; Sulaiman Onibudo 35yrs Male’;
Ayodele Temitope 42yrs Male’; Imeh Wisdom 22yrs Male’; Donald Oiagaa 27yrs Male.

Samson Isaac 32yrs Male’; Dare Ojo 21yrs Male’; Ajibolo Segun 17yrs Male’; Ibrahim Kadiri 14yrs Male’;
Oluwaseun Ayinde 42yrs Male’; Olatunji Ibrahim 20yrs Male’; Wasiu Mathew 19yrs Male’; Labade Saheed 23yrs Male; Jamiu Asiwaju 24yrs Male’; (Jew) Lateef Adewunmi 20yrs Female’; Ilori, Ilori Olumide 28yrs Female’; Kikelomo Rabiu 23yrs Female’; Rasaki Abibat 18yrs Female’; Abidemi Rasaki 18yrs Female’;
Seun Shoremilekun 19yrs Female’; Seri Sadiq Female’; Karimu Adijakuburat 24yrs Female’; Anike Adekoya 28yrs Female’; Ogechi Joseph 18yrs Female’; Bimbo Olorunda 24yrs Female’; Aina Amuda 18yrs Female’; Idowu Ibrahim Male’; Bose Owoeye Female’; Bukumi Ola Female’; Abass Qudri Male’; Idowu Mariam Female’; Iheanyi Benjamin Male’; Oladumi Kemi Female’; Habibat Ishola Female’; Ogar Moday Male’; Adebayo Lateef Male.

Idowupeola Oseni Male’; Wasiu Nurudeen Male; Sunday Akinyemi 25yrs Male’; Femi Ogundeji 25yrs Male’; Kazeem Oseni 30yrs Male’; Sonny Sodiq 24yrs Male’; Rotimi Ogunyemi 19yrs Male’; Ezekiel Omotosho 18yrs Male’; Opeyemi Joseph 22yrs Male’; Dada Falarunmi 20yrs Male’; Ogini Olatunbosun 30yrs Male’; Lukman Mukaila 37yrs Male’; Egbedokun Ajiboye 40yrs Male’; Ogunkoya Peter 25yrs Male’;
Abayomi Omobowale 25yrs Male’; Taiwo Hamzat 25yrs Male’; Olajide Sodiq 30yrs Male’; Meggi Emmanuel 26yrs Male’; Adesanya Sunday 19yrs Male’; Asafa Oluwagbemiga 30yrs Male’; Usman Taoreed 29yrs Male’; Haffez Abudu 23yrs Male’; Kalejaiye Quadri 17yrs Male’; Shittabey Olalekan 17yrs Male.

Victor Chibueze 28yrs Male’; Adesuyi Andrew 22yrs Male’; Fasawe David 26yrs Male; Junior Ochor 17yrs Male’; Abayomi Adeoye 45yrs Male’; Chijioke Elijah 36yrs Male’; Toheeb Oyerinde 17yrs Male’; Olugbode Gbenga 37yrs Male’; Ajijo Oluwadamilare 30yrs Male’; Adio Busayo 28yrs Male’; Dada Temitope 38yrs Male’; Akintola Olatunji 31yrs Male’; Odemero Couple 49yrs Male’; Adam Oloko 17yrs Male’; Ogunyemi Sunday 20yrs Male’; Hakeem Ogunmola 23yrs Male’; Aligbe Gabriel 33yrs Male’; Ogunkoya Oyeyemi 29yrs Male’; Asiru Hassan 20yrs Male’; Aina Adesola 18yrs Male’; Oluwafemi Felix 25yrs Male’; Jacob Olawale 23yrs Male’; Owoade Micheal 22yrs Male’; Lamina Olajuwon 23yrs Male’; Agbaje Ridwan 26yrs Male’; and Jamiu Bolaji 32yrs Male’.