The police command in Osun says it arrested six suspected cult members alleged to be terrorising Osogbo and its environs.

The command spokesman, DSP Abiodun Ojelabi, made this known in a statement on Friday in Osogbo.

Mr Ojelabi said the arrest was part of efforts by the state Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Gotan, to contain cult activities and other vices.

He said that at about 6:30 p.m. on August 21, during the student union week in one of the state’s higher institutions, police arrested two suspected cult members, following an intelligence report.

“The anti-cultism unit of the command arrested two suspected notorious cultists, with the nicknames ‘ORIFE’ and ‘AGA’, both 29 years old.

“They confessed to be members of Aiye and Buccaneer confraternities (Alora), respectively,” he said.

He said that in the same vein, on August 19, the command arrested some hoodlums suspected to be members of a secret cult terrorising the residents of Okuku town and its environs.

“Police detectives from the anti-cultism unit of the command moved swiftly to the town where four suspects were apprehended.

“The suspects confessed to be members of the Aiye confraternity,” he said.

He said, in another development, the police stormed the hideouts of armed hoodlums suspected to be members of Eiye confraternity, led by one ‘Gafari’, terrorising residents of Gbeja and Oke-Baale, Osogbo.

Mr Ojelabi said the suspects fled upon sighting the security operatives.

He, however, said one cut-to-size single-barrel gun, a cut-to-size double-barrel gun, five sharp cutlasses, one axe and three live cartridges were recovered from their hideouts.

Mr Ojelabi said efforts were on to apprehend the fleeing hoodlums, adding that all the arrested suspects would be charged to court upon completion of the investigation.

He quoted Mr Gotan as urging the students to focus on their education because the law would not spare anyone involved in cultism.

(NAN)