The police and some members of the Lagos State Neighbourhood
Safety Corps, LNSC, have arrested 11 secondary school students suspected to be
cultists. The suspects were allegedly terrorising members of the public with
dangerous weapons in the state.
The Divisional Police Officer of
Olosan Police Station, Adekunle Ominsakin, who confirmed the arrest to the News
Agency of Nigeria on Sunday, said all the suspects belonged to the ”Gang Star’’
cult.
Mr. Ominsakin said the suspects
claimed to have been in existence since 2013 operating as students, stressing
that they were between 17 years and 18 years old.
“One student-suspect was brought
to our station by LNSC on Friday. Our investigation led to the arrest of 10
other students, including a female student,” Mr. Omisankin said.
The spokesperson for the Lagos
Neighborhood Safety Corps, Adewale Afolabi, said that they had also arrested a
JSS3 student, who was allegedly terrorising members of the public with
dangerous weapons such as knives and machetes.
Mr. Afolabi said that the suspect,
who resides at No. 243, Agege Motor Road, Ojuwoye in Mushin, Lagos Mainland,
was alleged to be a student of a secondary school in Igbo Owu, Kwara.
“He had been terrorising the
people and students of the area. The LNSC operational team arrested the suspect
following intelligence information from the public”.
He confessed to the crime and also
exposed his 16-member gang by giving their names and their hideouts to.
Mr.
Afolabi said that the suspect had been transferred to the Olosan Police
Station, Mushin for further investigation.
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