Following the bloodletting between rival cult groups in Edo State within the past two months the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Folunso Adebanjo paraded 40 suspected cult members over the weekend, adding that the police would soon arrest and prosecution of cult leaders.
While calling the nefarious activities of the cultists as unacceptable and worrisome, Adebanjo pleaded with the Edo State Government to better equip the police by providing vehicles, bullet proof vests and other security gadgets so as to tackle the menace of cultism head-on.
Speaking to newsmen while parading the suspects, Abebanjo said: “we have arrested over 40 suspected cultists. The worrisome thing is the issue of reprisal killings and the command is not going to take it lightly. They are going to be charged for attempted murder and various crimes related to murder. What we are going to do in this 2015 is to arrest all the heads of the cult groups and charged them to court as accomplices. These senseless killings must stop.
“We are aware that about five persons have been killed and that is senseless. All of us must join hands and stamp out these murderous cultists. We are not going to allow them, if they are running crazy, we will arrest them and charge them as accomplices.”
