Lagos: Police parade 118 suspects over cultism, robbery, kidnapping others

Lagos State Police Command has paraded 118 suspects arrested crossed antithetic parts of the authorities for alleged engagement successful cultism, equipped robbery, murder, kidnapping, vandalism, amerciable possession of firearms, thoroughfare unit and related transgression activities.

Addressing journalists portion parading the suspects connected Wednesday, the Commissioner of Police, Fatai Tijani, said the arrests were the result of sustained intelligence-led operations and coordinated raids crossed identified transgression flashpoints successful Lagos.

Among those paraded was 38-year-old Emmanuel Ogbu, who reportedly confessed to returning to cult activities aft antecedently serving a jailhouse word successful 2018 for a akin offence.

His case, according to the police, is portion of a wider signifier of recidivism being tracked by investigators.

The bid disclosed that a bid of coordinated operations carried retired connected April 27, 2026, astir Ilasan, Lekki and Maroko led to the apprehension of 58 suspects linked to thoroughfare violence, telephone snatching, equipped attacks and harassment of residents wrong the Lekki axis.

Police said the suspects allegedly operated successful groups targeting unsuspecting members of the public, particularly astir postulation corridors, wherever they were accused of dispossessing victims of mobile phones and valuables earlier fleeing the scene.

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