By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The Edo state Police Command, on Friday, June 6, 2025, said it has commenced a meticulous house-to-house search and arrest of suspected cult members and other criminal gangs in the state.
This is just as it announced the apprehension of no few than 28 identified cultists in the ongoing operation.
The Source reports that Edo state, in the past few months, has been battling with an upsurge in cult-related violence, attacks, deaths and destruction of both private and private properties.
This has pushed the State authorities and security agencies, particularly, the police into adopting some tough and far-reaching measures in combating the menace.
A statement on Friday from the Command’s spokesperson, Moses Iyamu, informed that the house-to-house search is one of the measures conceived to effectively tackle cult-related disturbances and deaths in the state.
According to him, the 28 suspected cultists were arrested during a coordinated raid on some identified flashpoints between 4 pm and 10 pm on Wednesday, June 4, 2025.
He explained that the new measure aims to either completely eradicate cultism, cult-related violence and attacks as well as reduce them to the barest minimum.
The police spokesman stated that the house-to-house search and arrest exercise is mostly anchored on the twin policies of visibility policing and community engagement.
According to Iyamu, 19 out of the arrested 28 suspects found culpable after a rigorous screening exercise have been arraigned .
Three of the arrested suspects, he added, during interrogation, admitted to being members of the Eiye and Aye confraternities.
The Command, while advising cult members to voluntarily renounce the practice and be useful and law abiding citizens, however, vowed to sustain its present onslaught on cultists in the state.
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