The Police Command in Ekiti has arrested eight suspected members of four different secret cult groups at the campus of the Ekit State University on Tuesday.
A statement on Wednesday by the Public Relations Officer of the Command, DSP Sunday Abutu, said that the arrest followed a report that members of some cult groups were disturbing the peace in the institution’s campus. Abutu said that on May 7, at about 6:00p.m., the Command received a distress call that some suspected members of Buccaneer confraternity, Alora confraternity and Sea Lord groups were conducting themselves in a manner that could cause breach of peace in the institution’s campus.
“The Command immediately deployed the Rapid Response Squad to the scene where eight suspects including two final year student of political science, a 400 level computer Science and 300 level accounting student and two 300 level sociology students were arrested,” Abutu said. Others arrested, he said, were a 2023 graduate of the institution, and another in the department of political science having an extra year.
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