{"id":1033,"date":"2022-03-31T17:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/three-members-of-awawa-cult-group-apprehended-by-lagos-police-in-agege\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:03:58","slug":"three-members-of-awawa-cult-group-apprehended-by-lagos-police-in-agege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/three-members-of-awawa-cult-group-apprehended-by-lagos-police-in-agege\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Members Of Awawa Cult Group Apprehended By Lagos Police In Agege"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>Officials of Lagos Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested three notorious Awawa cult members in order to reduce the rising crime and violence in Agege area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are: Abubakar Mohammed (26), Nofiu Odusanya (19) and Idowu Daramola (22).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Commander, Rapid Response Squad (RRS), two weeks ago directed the squad\u2019s Decoy Team to gather intelligence on some of the people behind the increasing crime and violence around Agege and effect their arrests.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team arrested the three suspects who are part of the seven dreaded members of Awawa Cult and brains behind some of the violence and crimes around Agege in recent times. The trio were equally fingered in night and dawn robberies in Agege.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar Mohammed, popularly known as Yaba, who was recently released from prison is reputed for \u2018okada\u2019 robbery and has been in and out of police custody several times.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nofiu Odusanya, a.k.a Alhaji Horror was arrested for been complicit in the gruesome matcheting of one Babatunde while being also involved in night and dawn robberies in Agege.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Idowu Daramola alias Magnet, is a popular pickpocket and phone snatcher as well as dusk and dawn robber around Capitol Road, Agege.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile some community stakeholders have called on CSP Yinka Egbeyemi to assist the community in keeping away the three suspects from the community in order to reduce the crime in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three suspects have been taken to court for prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US investigator, Gar Warner, debunks the viral claim on how the convicted Nigerian scam artist, Hushpuppi, reportedly defrauded $400M from prison. \u00a0 A publication made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.5) - 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