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Five suspected cultists person been arrested by operatives of the Kwara State Police command, DAILY POST reports.
Their apprehension is coming connected the heels of the Violent Crimes Response Unit, VCRU, established precocious by the bid to reenforce intelligence-led transgression fighting.
Its archetypal large tract cognition was conducted connected 18th May, 2026 astatine Kilanko and Post Office achromatic spots successful Ilorin metropolis, targeting suspected cultists’ hideouts and transgression enclaves linked to convulsive activities, according to a connection by the spokesperson of the command, SP Adetoun Ejire Adeyemi, successful Ilorin on Tuesday.
”Acting connected credible quality and successful enactment with the policing imaginativeness of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Tunji Rilwan Disu, operatives of the unit, successful collaboration with assemblage policing stakeholders and the VGN Special Squad led by Kayode Usman, executed a coordinated cognition that led to the disruption of identified transgression hideouts.
”During the operation, AbdulRahman Jimoh, popularly known arsenic Kangol, a notorious suspected cultist who had agelong been connected the unit’s watchlist for his alleged engagement successful assorted cult-related activities and different convulsive crimes wrong Ilorin metropolis, was arrested astatine astir 2100hrs astatine the Post Office axis.
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