Anambra Police Command Nabs Seven Suspected Cultists, Armed Robbers, Recovers Arms, Others

Anambra Police Command operatives have arrested seven suspected cultists and armed robbers, recovered a cut-size double barrel gun, one tricycle without a registration number, as well as some hard drugs.

The suspects include Chukwuemka Ozoekwe, aged eigteen, Chidozie Anagor, aged eighteen, Chukwuemeka Oyeoka aged eighteen, Ebuka Okoye aged seventeen, Olisa Obi, aged ninteen, Chidubem Nwakwu, aged twenty, and Kosisochukwu Nwankwo, all males.

Makuo Nwosu, a k a, Baby, and one other person whose name is yet to be identified are declared wanted, according to a statement issued by the Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga.

It was gathered that Police officers attached to Special Anti-Cult Squad, SPACS, while on patrol at Unizik Junction, intercepted all males and five occupants, including the driver of a tricycle popularly known as Keke.

The Police operatives, in a bid to question the suspects, the occupants of the tricycle took to their heels, but Chukwuemka Ozoekwe was arrested.

Chukwuemeka later led the Police officers to their criminal den where Chidozie Anagor and Chukwuemeka Oyeoka were arrested, while the remaining two are still at large.

It was also stated that during the raid operation in the criminal den, the Police operatives arrested Ebuka Okoye, Olisa Obi, Chidubem Nwakwu and Kosisochukwu Nwankwo.

During interrogation, the suspects confessed to being members of the Vipers Cult group, and that they are one of the gangs terrorizing Awka metropolis recently.

The suspects also confessed that they were on a mission to rob road users of their phones and personal belongings before their arrest.

Acting Commissioner of Police in Anambra and Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Finance and Administration, Mr. Fidelis Ogarabe, who charged Police operatives to sustain the tempo in the fight against crime in the state, also assures Ndi Anambra that the confidence repose on the Police and all the security agencies in the state shall not be taken for granted, even as he directed that the suspects to be charged to court on the conclusion of investigations.