Kwara: Police arrest 13 suspected cultists, drug peddlers, recover 24 motorcycles

Operatives of the Kwara State Police Command, successful collaboration with members of the National Forest Guard, person arrested 13 suspected cultists, thugs and cause peddlers during a coordinated raid carried retired astatine Tanke Junction, Ilorin, the authorities capital.

The raid according to the spokesperson of the authorities constabulary bid SP Adetoun Ejire Adeyemi, followed credible quality connected the activities of hoodlums operating nether the guise of commercialized motorcyclists.

“The suspects were progressive successful cult-related activities, thoroughfare violence, illicit cause trafficking and different transgression acts susceptible of disrupting nationalist bid and information wrong the area, which has implicit clip gained notoriety arsenic a transgression flashpoint wrong the Ilorin metropolis.

“During the operation, 24 motorcycles were recovered, retired of which 5 were unregistered. Various suspected illicit substances reasonably believed to beryllium cannabis sativa, “ice” (crystal methamphetamine), Colorado, tramadol and different hard drugs were besides recovered from the suspects,” the spokesperson added.

Adetoun, disclosed that peliminary probe revealed that the suspects utilized the determination arsenic a gathering constituent for cause peddling, recruitment of youths into unlawful societies, intimidation of residents and readying of transgression activities wrong Ilorin and its environs.

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