Eight suspected members of a secret cult were at the weekend arrested by Delta State Police Command.
The cultists who were presently in police custody were caught with a dead body of a students whose name was yet to be identified.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Manman Tsafe, who disclosed this said the eight suspects were rounded up at their initiation ground at Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government area of the state.
Tsafe said his men, acting on a tip off, mobilised to the initiation ground at midnight and arrested the suspects, who are currently cooling off their feet at the command, pending when they would be taken to court for prosecution. Just yesterday we arrested eight suspected cultists in the bush at Ogwashi- Uku.
They all confessed to the crime and as I talk to you now, they have given us useful information and investigation is on. We are trying the best we can to see that we wipe out cultism or bring it to a reasonable level in the state.
The police commissioner said some of the items recovered from the cultists include a lifeless body of a student, locally made pistols, cut-to-size guns with some cartridges, cutlasses and battle axe, among others, He called on parents to, as a matter of importance, watch over their children and teach them the right way to go.
Meanwhile, renewed acts of kidnapping and cult related killings have become a regular thing in the once peaceful Oleh community, headquarters of Isoko South Local Government area of the state. Barely two weeks after the kidnap of Madam Osega, an aged mother of a former ACN House of Representatives candidate for Isoko Federal Constituency in the 2011 general elections in her residence at Oleh by armed men, a man in his 30s, simply identified as Victor was last week murdered in cold blood at Oleh by yet to be identified cultists.
According to sources, Victor, an indigene of Oleh was shot in the stomach at about 11.00 pm and rushed to a nearby hospital, where bullets were extracted from his body. He gave up the ghost the following day. Also, a teacher, simply identified as Mrs. Stella Irogbo, wife of the Managing Director of Isoko Global Micro-Credit Bank in Oleh, Prosper Irogbo, was on Friday last week kidnapped by unknown gunmen.
When contacted, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, in charge of the area, Mr. Chris Sorgbara, confirmed the incident saying investigation has since commenced and that the culprits would soon be arrested. As at the time of filing this report, the car belonging t o Stella has been recovered but no contact has been made with her abductors.
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