Lagos State Command has vowed that it will not relent in its efforts at ridding the state of members of the unlawful cultism societies.

Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal who gave the vow, called on parents to hold heart to heart talks with their children, male and female alike, on the evil consequences of belonging to cult groups.

Edgal thanked Lagosians for always providing the command with information about the activities of the outlawed group and solicited for more cooperation.

He made the remark, following the report of an initiation ceremony into a newly formed secret confraternity named “ The New Black Movement of Africa” a breakaway faction of the AIYE cult group, has turned sour.

The ceremony turned sour when one of the recruits who could not endure the torture and other initiation rites he was subjected, bolted for his dear life and ran to his mother’s house at Jakande estate, Ajah Lagos.

Angry by the apparent show of cowardice by the intending recruit and the fact that he may give them up to the police, the group chased him to his mother’s residence and began to beat up everybody in sight, robbed residents of the estate who were woken up by their noise.

But unfortunately for the group, the mother of the runaway boy, sneaked out of the house and placed a distress call to the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ilasan division, Onyinye Onwuamaegbu.

Onwuamaegbu, a Chief Superintendent of Police who led a contingent of policemen to the estate and arrested eleven members of the group, including Godwin Victor, Benjamin Daniel, Saviour Anioffiong, Lawal Ibrahim, Shola Odekunle, Sodiq Olawuyi, Segun Fagbohun, Bashiru Lawal, Chinedu Francis, Wahab Adams and Ifarinde Adeniyi.

The police team recovered items such as one locally made shotgun, four live cartridges, three cutlasses, one sledge hammer, ten horse whips and assorted charms from the suspects.

In a related development, two notorious cultists, Rasheed Yusuf, a.k.a Radical and Abel Okwo, were arrested during a supremacy battle between the Aiye and Eiye confraternities at Akerele street, Oworonshoki.

Meanwhile, the said Abel Okwo was charged to court two months ago by the Command for cult related offences only to come back to terrorise the town the more.