Eight Suspected Cultist Arrested At EKSU

The Ekiti State Police Command has apprehended eight suspected students for cultism at the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Sunday Abutu, revealed this on Wednesday, stating that the arrest occurred on Tuesday following the intervention of men from the Command’s Rapid Response Squad (CRSS), after a distress call from concerned individuals .

Abutu said in a statement on behalf of the state Commissioner of Police, Adeniran Akinwale, that the “command’s RRS received a distress call that some suspected members of the Buccaneer Confraternity Alora Sea Lord secret cult group were conducting themselves in a manner that could cause a breach of peace on the campus of EKSU”.

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He added that the command had deployed the RRS to the scene where eight suspected cult members were arrested. He, however, explained that the suspects put up a defiance and attempted to flee the scene. “During the operation, some of the fleeing gang members fired gunshots at the Armoured Personnel Carrier conveying the RRS operatives and damaged the windshield”, he added.

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Abutu listed the suspects as “Onifade Akinsola (400L Political Science), Olatunde David (400L Computer Science), Omoboyowa Olabode (400L Political Science), Daniel Oluwagbenga (300L Accounting), Adeleke Tolani (300L Sociology), Andrew Ochuko (300L Sociology), Bamiduro Olawale (CarryOver Student of Political Science), and Adelakun Omoniyi (2023 graduate) stating that efforts are in progress to arrest them and recover the weapons in their possession.