Six suspected cultists arrested over attempted murder in Ekiti

The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested six suspected members of the Alora Confraternity successful transportation with an alleged attempted execution pursuing a convulsive clash astatine a edifice successful Ikere-Ekiti.

The suspects were apprehended by operatives of the Command’s Rapid Response Squad, RRS, aft a disturbance reportedly broke retired during a gathering held astatine a successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday, August 1, 2026.

According to the police, the suspects engaged successful a convulsive confrontation, leaving 1 of them, identified arsenic Sucrose, with terrible injuries. The unfortunate was rushed to a infirmary for aesculapian treatment.

A connection issued on Monday by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Sunday Abutu, said the RRS, moving successful collaboration with surveillance operatives from the Ilupeju Police Division, swiftly responded to the incidental and arrested six suspects. They were identified arsenic Owolabi Oluwapelumi (28), David Adeleke (28), Oluwatoba Alo (30), Olamilekan Junior (27), Segun Bidemi (29), and Emmanuel Oladele (27).

The constabulary disclosed that preliminary investigations revealed that the...