Police apprehend 17 cultists in Abia, recover guns, other arms 

Seventeen suspected antheral cultists aged betwixt 18 and 28 years person been arrested by the  Abia State Police Command.

The Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, DSP Maureen Chinaka made this known successful a property merchandise on Tuesday night.

She said that immoderate of the suspected cultists were arrested astatine their assorted gathering points, portion the others were nabbed connected their mode to perpetrate crimes.

According to the Abia State Police Command, items recovered from the suspects include: 5 abbreviated guns, 3 unrecorded ammunition, thirteen  mobile phones of antithetic makes, two  cutlasses, one  axe and one  achromatic barete.

The Command said that the apprehension of the suspects followed  the caller upsurge successful cult-related activities successful the State,  including the onslaught connected 13/05/2026 astatine No. 29 Brass Road, Aba, wherever a young antheral was changeable and macheted to decease by a radical of suspected cultists.

The Command besides recalled that different young antheral was changeable by suspected cultists  connected 24/05/2026 astatine Ehere, adjacent Opobo jppunction successful Aba.

“The Abia State Police Command, leveraging connected actionable intelligence, took the combat ...