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Some of the cultists who clashed today in Ketu have been arrested by the police.
Police officers have apprehended 15 cultists after they clashed with rivals in Ketu, Lagos state.
The arrest took place on Wednesday.
It was gathered that the fracas started when members of the Eye, Aiye and Buccaneer cult groups engaged in a battle of supremacy over who should collect revenue at the popular Ketu market. The scuffle grounded economic activities in the axis as traders stayed off the zone.
The Lagos State Police Command in a declaration by means of its spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, but, said normalcy has been restored to the vicinity.
The announcement changed into titled, ‘Ikosi/Ketu Crisis: Police Restore Normalcy, Arrest 15 With Weapons’.
It read, “The Lagos State Police Command has restored normalcy to the Ikosi/Ketu region of Lagos State after a clash that passed off today Wednesday seventeenth March, 2021 at 6am among some suspected cult corporations, Eye, Aiye and Buccaneer, as fifteen (15) suspects were arrested. Two (2) regionally made pistols, some stay cartridges, diverse charms and many others had been recovered from the suspects.
“The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, who had deployed policemen such as the Rapid Response Squad and Taskforce to the vicinity to quench the crisis and repair normalcy to the vicinity, has ordered that the suspects be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba for discreet Investigation.
“Preliminary investigation discovered that the crisis was linked to the revenue era on the Ketu culmination market; and efforts are in top gear to apprehend different fleeing contributors of the gangs that orchestrated crisis in the vicinity.
“The Commissioner of Police has but reiterated the command’s commitment to combating crimes and criminal activity, specifically cultism, within the country. He stated that the command will harness all legitimate approach to suppress cultists’ activities inside the country.”
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