Police parade 77 suspects over kidnapping, murder, cultism in Edo

No less than 77 suspects arrested for assorted transgression offences were on Friday paraded by the Edo State Police Command pursuing a bid of operations carried retired crossed the authorities successful June 2026.

The suspects were apprehended for offences ranging from kidnapping and cultism to equipped robbery, murder, unlawful possession of firearms, rape and different intersexual and gender-based violence-related crimes.

Addressing journalists during the parade, the Commissioner of Police, Monday Agbonika, said the arrests reflected the Command’s committedness to safeguarding lives and property, strengthening nationalist assurance successful policing and ensuring transparency successful information operations crossed the state.

Agbonika explained that the constabulary intensified intelligence-driven operations passim the month, targeting kidnapping gangs, cult groups, equipped robbery syndicates and different convulsive criminals.

He added that the Command besides strengthened collaboration with sister information agencies arsenic good arsenic community-based information stakeholders to amended crime-fighting efforts.

According to him, the sustained crackdown has considerably disrupted transgression activities successful respective parts of the state, stressing that Edo would not service arsenic a harmless haven for criminals.

The constabulary commissioner attribut...