Police arrest four suspected cult members, recover pistol, ammunition in Lagos

Lagos State Police Command has arrested 4 suspected members of the Aiye Confraternity cult radical and recovered a locally made Beretta pistol and a unrecorded 9mm ammunition during an cognition successful the Mushin country of the state.

The arrests were carried retired by operatives of the Command’s Violent Crime Response Unit, VCRU, pursuing quality connected the activities of suspected cult groups successful Mushin.

According to a connection issued on Monday by the Command’s spokesperson, Abimbola Adebisi, the cognition began with the apprehension of a fishy identified arsenic Irawo Moshod.

The constabulary said Moshod, who allegedly admitted to being a erstwhile president of the Aiye Confraternity, provided accusation that led investigators to different suspected members of the radical and the betterment of a firearm.

The Command alleged that the fishy besides made disclosures concerning the activities of the group, including his alleged engagement successful respective killings successful Mushin and different parts of Lagos State.

Acting connected accusation obtained during the investigation, VCRU operatives reportedly proceeded to Idi-Oro, Mushin, wherever they recovered a locally made Beretta pistol and 1 unrecorded 9mm ammunition.

The constabulary subsequently arrested 3 different suspected members of the radical astatine Aganran by Ojuwoye.