Police arrest 11 suspected cultists at LAUTECH, recover guns

Oyo State Police Command has arrested 11 suspected members of the Eiye Confraternity, each believed to beryllium students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, implicit an alleged program to motorboat attacks wrong the assemblage community.

The cognition besides led to the betterment of firearms, ammunition and respective unsafe weapons reportedly intended for usage successful the planned assault.

The Command disclosed this successful a connection issued on Friday, explaining that the arrests followed quality reports indicating that members of the cult radical had assembled astatine antithetic locations successful the Under-G, Yuako and Adenike areas of Ogbomoso to coordinate convulsive activities susceptible of destabilising the field environment.

Acting connected the intelligence, operatives of the Command’s Violent Crime Response Unit, VCRU, carried retired coordinated raids connected the identified hideouts, successfully foiling the alleged cognition earlier it was executed.

Police authorities stated that the cognition resulted successful the apprehension of 11 antheral suspects, who were instantly taken into custody for investigation.

According to the Command, preliminary interrogation revealed that the suspects allegedly admitted rank of the Eiye Confraternity, portion ongoing investigations besides linked them to respective cult-related offences, ...