Police in Delta State Nab 252 cultists

Commissioner of police in-charge of Delta State, Alkali Baba Usman is, no doubt, facing a herculean task. 

Aside the incessant criminal activities of cultists in major areas of the state, he is also saddled with the onerous task of checkmating the nefarious activities of not just other criminals but, the recent uprising amongst some agitators for the creation of sovereign state of Biafra. 

In Oghara, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad raided cult hide outs and arrested 48 members.  At Agbor, another cult hot-bed, about 9 cultists were arraigned recently and are facing the wrath of the law.  At Jesse, about 13 members of Sparrows Junior Eye, SJE, were arraigned in July, 2015.

Supreme Vikings

More so, at Ibusa, cult members engaged a SARS team, threw stones at their Hilux van and damaged the back and front windscreen.  At the end, two of them were nabbed.  As a follow up, the command monitored and arrested 33 male and 2 female members of Supreme Vikings confraternity also at Ibusa.  At Okwe, we nabbed 9 suspected Aiye 1977 A.S,H. Dodorima cultists during their meeting.

On the whole, over 252 cultists have been arrested since the beginning of this year and majority of them have been prosecuted and convicted.  We also succeeded in dealing with several cult-related killings.  For instance, last September at Obiaruku, one Ife Akachukwu, 21, was shot by rival cultists while another unidentified boy was found dead after sporadic gunshots by rival cultists groups.

At the same Obiaruku, one Albert Onukaba, 28, was killed by suspected cultists.  The three incidents showed that rival cultists were on a vengeance mission.

Vengeance mission
At Kwale, the story is the same.  One Ifinwa Analuwe, 20 was stabbed to death by suspected rival cultists while in another incident, the acting chairman of Uvwie LGA, Chief Stella Otiotio was attacked by armed irate Uwvie youths suspected to be cultists when she ran into them while collecting illegal tolls and levies from unsuspecting members of the public.  In addition, we arrested six suspected Aiye cultists in Warri.