Detectives from the Lagos State Police Command have arrested three suspected members of a notorious secret cult gang terrorising Ikorodu area and its environs.
The suspects described by the police authorities as the number one to three men of the gang were arrested on Wednesday with arms and ammunition.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Adegoke Fayoade, who disclosed this while meeting with crime reporters at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja said he has also set up a special squad to handle cases of cultism in the state.
Fayoade also assured residents of Lagos State that one of his major agenda is to fight cultism, traffic robbery and kidnapping among other prominent cases in the state, adding that the mandate of the special squad was to sniff out cult members from their hideouts.
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He noted that the command is working to ensure that the economic activities and standard of living of the people are improved because a crime free environment will make the state buoyant.
He added that the suspects will soon be paraded. “We are fighting cultism, one of my major agenda in Lagos is to fight cultism, traffic robbery and kidnapping; these are the prominent cases we have in the state.
“We are partnering with the judiciary so that any of them arrested will be taken off the society for long so that others can learn.”
He added that the Command Complaint Response Unit. (CRU) will be more empowered and strengthened to take more complaints because I know that we are going to have more complaints this season.”
