Follow up to the earlier thread on FP.
IGP Arase
Barely 24 hours after the Inspector-
General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase,
dispatched a special squad to Edo
State to tackle the spate of cultism,
kidnapping, robbery and other related
crimes, the team has arrested 11
suspected leaders of cult groups in
the state, among them, four state
government functionaries.
Police sources said the team, led by
the Deputy Commissioner of Police
in-charge of Federal Special Anti-
robbery Squad, FEDSARS, Chris Ezike,
stormed the hideout of the cultists
few hours after arriving Benin City
and successfully arrested leaders of
cult confraternities for alleged
complicity and murder of 10
Nigerians in the last one month in
Edo State.
The cult leaders were arrested on
suspicion of conspiratorial
involvement in alleged murder of one
Ojo Ayeadu, 55, at old Benin-Auchi
Road and nine other persons at
different locations in Benin City and
its environs.
Reacting to the development, an Edo
State Government official, who spoke
on the condition of anonymity, said:
“Those arrested, from what we
gathered, are junior workers of the
War Against Indiscipline. The state
governor does not condone cultism,
which explains why when one of his
bodyguards was accused of being
involved in cultism, he ordered his
arrest, which was done immediately.”
Confirming the arrests, Force Public
Relations Officer, Ag Commissioner of
Police, Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, told
Vanguard on phone: “Yes, a good
number of arrests has been made,
irrespective of their status. The
figures are still coming in. The thrust
of the IG is yielding positive results.”
Sources said the suspects include
Engr. David Olukoga, 46, who is the
Chairman, Edo State Committee on
War Against Indiscipline and Senior
Special Assistant on Youth
Enhancement to the Governor of the
State, Osunde Aigbedo, 48; Executive
Director, Special Duties, Government
House, Edo State, Dr. Salako
Adebowale, 43, of UBTH, Benin-City;
Ernest Amadasun, 49, the Managing
Director, Pohien Investments and
National Coordinator, Human
Assistant Initiative and Adebo
Ejuaoje, 46, of the Ministry of
Education, Science and Tech
Vocational, Iyaro, Benin City.
Other arrested suspects, according to
police sources, include Isabor Larry,
34, staff of Edo State House of
Assembly; Totti Omonuwa, 42, of No.
97, Igun Street, Benin-City, Ahunwan-
ID Orlando, 39, of No. 2, Ighodalo
Street, Benin-City; Josuah Ehiabhi,
36, of No. 11, Upper Mission Road,
off Ewa Raod, Benin-City; Felix
Evbodi, 46, of No. 12, Aibelegbe
Street, Benin-City and Uche
Chukwuka, 36, the Private Secretary
to the Chairman, Committee on
Environment, Ministry of Environment,
Edo State.
They were alleged to belong to Eiye,
, Buccaneers, Aiye and
Jurist confraternities.
The suspects, Vanguard gathered,
denied complicity in the murder
charge but made very useful
statements to the police. It was
learned from sources that the
suspects, with others at large, have
been fingered as brains behind the
sustained and vicious inter and intra-
cult war that engulfed Edo State in
recent times leading to avoidable
loss of lives.
It was gathered that following the
development, the Inspector-General
of Police ordered that robust and
coordinated anti-robbery patrols of
identified black spots along Isua –
Ibillo Road, Ibillo –Lakpese – Okene
roads while all Area Commanders
and Divisional Police Officers in the
area are to partake in the special
operation.
Cc: Afam4eva Lalasticlala OAM4J

Na wa ooo. All edo govt officials have to be sacked. Make dem no worry, the thunder that will fire all of dem by GEN. BUHARI is still preserved till may 30th 2015.

Why don't the Police leave them to kill themselves and gives us scores of 80-96, then those that are left would learn that cultism is evil.

Two idiots had the guts to slap me in the University because they shouted Arow at me and i told them that is not my name and went on to ask if I knew a student with one eye and red stuff bla bla bla. . . Next thing I heard was confirm jewman and 100 storey building chaffist and then some intermittent slaps.

Let them all perish for all I care!

Some of these names are familiar. Men ought to outgrow this frat thing. Why arm misguided youths to the abyss? My good Uniben days, thy memory is mixed.. God open the eyes of these ones.

Seems they have infiltrated the government of Oshomole.