UPDATE: POLICE ARREST SUSPECTED CULTISTS WITH PISTOLS IN OSUN

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On a trip to the country’s southern region, six alleged cultists were detained in Ipetu-Ijesa, Osun State.

According to a trustworthy security source who spoke with our correspondent on Sunday under the condition of anonymity, locals who noticed the suspects in a vehicle park called the police.

He claimed that as the suspects were getting ready to board a car in Ipetu-Ijesa that would take them to Ile Oluji, from where they planned to board another that would take them to Delta State, some watchful locals alerted police officers from the Osun State Police Command’s Anti Cultism Unit.

The source added that before the suspects left the vehicle park, the agents ambushed them and took weapons and ammo from them.

The source said, “At the motor park were many travellers when the suspects came into premises.

“They were said to be heading to a town in Delta State, but we can’t say where they were coming from. Since they can’t get a direct vehicle to their destination, they needed to board one going towards their route.

“The vehicle they wanted to board was heading to Ile Oluji in Ondo State. People around were suspicious of them, and they informed the police.

Osun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Yemisi Opalola, who confirmed the development, said the suspects traveling from Ilorin in Kwara State were heading to Delta State when operatives from the command arrested them inside a motor park in Ipetu-Ijesa.

She said, “We received information from Ipetu-Ijesa that some hoodlums suspected to be men of under world were sighted in their motor park.

“A police team moved to the motor park and apprehended the six suspects. Meanwhile, four cut to size locally made pistols with 155 rounds of live 9mm ammunition were recovered from them.

“The suspects confessed to be members of Eiye confraternity from Ilorin town, Kwara State, and were heading to Delta State for cultism operation.”