{"id":130654,"date":"2023-12-13T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T12:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/13\/police-arrest-suspected-cultists-others-for-various-crimes-in-edo\/"},"modified":"2023-12-13T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T12:29:42","slug":"police-arrest-suspected-cultists-others-for-various-crimes-in-edo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/13\/police-arrest-suspected-cultists-others-for-various-crimes-in-edo\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Suspected Cultists, Others For Various Crimes In Edo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Edo State Police Command arrested some suspects, allegedly involved in various crimes across the state.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Dankwara, who paraded the suspects, on Tuesday, stated that they were taken into custody due to the ongoing crackdown on criminal activity that started on December 11.<\/p>\n<p>Dankwara claimed that, among other offences, the suspects were arrested for crimes bordering on cultism, car snatching, illegal gun ownership, and kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the majority of the suspects were detained on charges of cultism. He also said that they had information indicating that influential people were leading the cult organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Two Injured As DSS Operatives Clash With NSCDC Officials In Edo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThis is to warn either those in government or outside that is supporting cult group tactically or financially to desist from it because anybody no matter how highly placed would be prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have arrested members of various cult groups but the prominent ones that usually have problems in the state are black axe, Eiye, and Maphite confraternities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have intelligence that highly places people in the state are supporting and behind this cult group and once we can verify this, we would go after them because they can\u2019t make the state ungovernable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnywhere we know that there are cultists whether individual houses or public places, we would go there and arrest them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-2014274104\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edo State Police Command arrested some suspects, allegedly involved in various crimes across the state. 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