Lagos State Police Command has arrested no fewer than eighty suspected cultists between April and Fourteenth July in Lagos.

The Command had in April, arrested forty-two suspected cultists, allegedly belonging to different groups at different places within the state, while seventeen others were also arrested in June.

Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said this while parading twenty-seven suspects, twenty of them were suspected cultists.

Hundeyin said the suspects paraded were arrested within three weeks, stressing that cultism had become a major crime giving the command worries.

According to him, Mushin, Ikorodu, Okokomaiko, Ebute-Metta, Obalende and Lekki-Ajah, Shomolu, Badagry are areas where the suspects have their bases.

In his words, in many of the arrests, police had recovered dangerous weapons, including ammunition, guns, cutlasses, knives, charms of all kinds and their Barrets representing their groups.

Hundeyin appealed to the public to join hands in bringing this menace to an end in Lagos state.

He said amongst those paraded also were suspected armed robbers, murder and suspected vandal.

According to him, “From all the cases which we successfully cracked, we recovered a total of six arms, 12 live ammunition, one knife, two motorcycles, one vehicle and sim cards,”.

Explaining further, Hundeyin said on June 30th, at about 2.00 p.m., based on credible intelligence, some group of boys suspected to be members of Kesari Confraternity were planning to retaliate their leader’s death on other rival cult members in Mushin area of the state.

He said police operatives of the command swung into action and arrested five suspects who were between ages 20 and 27.

The spokesperson said the suspects were members of a notorious armed robbery/cultism gang terrorizing Mushin and its environs and they confessed to being active members of the confraternity.

Hundeyin said two Eiye confraternity members were also arrested at Ebute-Metta area on Tuesday while they were brandishing arms to go and attack rival cult members in same area.

He said the operatives arrested 10 others, including a female member at Iba Okokomaiko after they allegedly killed one Ojo Lion.

“The suspects confessed to being members of Eiye confraternity. locally made single barrel pistol with two live cartridges were recovered from them,” he said.

The image maker said one pipeline vandal, whose gang allegedly vandalised the NNPC Pipeline at Idimu on July 6, 2023 was arrested, while efforts were on to arrest other members of the gang.

He said all suspects paraded would be be charged to court immediately.