Police arrest 31 IMSU cult members

Police arrest 31 IMSU cult members

Thirty one suspected cult members of Imo State University, Owerri, Imo State, have been arrested by the operatives of the State Police Command after a gun duel between the police and the undergraduates.

According to the state Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Enwerem, said that the suspects were nabbed at Orji Comprehensive Secondary School in the Owerri North Local Government Area of the state during ongoing initiation process.

He gave the names of some of the alleged cultists as Okafor Anyanwu, Chimezie Nwanezi, Umeh Chimezie, Obiji Obumneke, Ubani Lawrence, Okpara Chimezie

Others were Amouha Ikenna, Njoku Chidi , Ajaegbu Gabriel Golden, Alaforo Walter, Akpasuo Chimereijem, Okpara Jude Chijike, Ukachi Samuel,  Christus Okerie,and Gaboh Lucky.

According to Enwerem, the State Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, who coordinated the operation, said the police would fight cultism in the state.

The PPRO added that the CP had ordered that the suspected cult members be charged to court at the end of the investigations.

The CP, who later spoke to our correspondent on the telephone, said the suspected cult members shot one of his men during the operation.

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