The
Edo State Police Command said it arrested some lecturers of the Ambrose Ali
University, Ekpoma for allegedly engaging in cult-related activities.
The
Commissioner of Police, Haliru Gwandu, who disclosed this to journalists in
Benin on Tuesday, added that firearms were recovered from the arrested
academics.
Gwandu
also said that among those arrested was a professor, from whom a double-barrel
gun, single-barrel gun and one pump action gun were allegedly recovered.
The
police commissioner said, “The professor was arrested. He was granted bail. The
case is under investigation.”
Gwandu’s
statement came less than a week after the command refuted reports that its
operatives allegedly brutalised the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the
university, Prof. Sunday Edeko.
The
commissioner expressed displeasure over the high rate of cultism around the institution
located in Esan West Local Government Area, which he said had claimed many
lives.
He
said there had been distress calls from members of the university community
that cult groups were unleashing mayhem in the area.
“It
was a distress call from the community; the university community made a call
that cult groups were killing and they killed so many.
“And
at the time when they (policemen) went to inspect a site, they discovered more
than 14 beheaded students at that particular time,” he said.
He,
however, vowed that the police would ensure that the leaders and members of
cult groups in the area were arrested and charged to court.
Gwandu
said, “We have a lot of issues with that particular university. There are some
senior lecturers that were apprehended with firearms.
“So,
we are going to arrest those who are mentoring and those who are real cultists
and charge them to court. There is no going back.”
-Punch
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