Police Arrest 11 Suspected LAUTECH Cultists, Recover Firearms, Foil Planned Attack In Ogbomoso

Oyo State Police Command has announced the arrest of 11 suspected cultists at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso.

The command revealed that all the suspects are students of the institution.

The command made these declarations via a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Olayinka Ayanlade.

The statement was made on Saturday in Ibadan, the state capital.

Ayanlade in the statement explained that the suspects are members of a cultist group known as Eiye confrontanity.

He said that some items were recovered from the suspects as exhibits.

Ayanlade also disclosed that the group planned to launch an attack in the institution.

He added that the police having got a credible intelligence information acted and foiled the attack.

Ayanlade said four locally fabricated cut-to-size pistols, eleven live cartridges, one expended cartridge, two cult axes, one cutlass, one dagger knife; and one red cult hooded cap were recovered from the suspects as exhibits.

“Acting on credible intelligence received by the Command, operatives of the Command’s Violent Crime Response Unit (VCRU) were deployed after it was established that members of the dreaded Eiye Confraternity had converged at their hideout within the Under-G, Yuako, and Adenike areas, where they were allegedly perfecting plans to launch coordinated attacks within the student community capable of causing widespread unrest.

“The recovered exhibits include, four locally fabricated cut-to-size pistols, eeven live cartridges, one expended cartridge, two cult axes, one cutlass, one dagger knife and one red cult hooded cap,” he said.