The Edo State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of 28 suspected cult members during a house-to-house search for identified cult members.
The raid on criminal hideouts within Benin-City, was carried out on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, between 4 and 10 pm.
The Command in statement late Thursday nigbt by its Spokesman, CSP Moses Yamu, described the action as part of its fight against cultism.
He added that the Command has sustained its fight against crime through visibility policing, community engagements and sustained raids of criminal hideouts in the State.
Yamu who noted that the effort yielded fruit, however disclosed that the suspects were professionally screened, and 19 of them who were found culpable have been charged to court.
Meanwhile, the Command’s CP, Monday Agbonika, has warned all cult members to either denounce cultism and turn a new leaf, relocate from the State or face the full wrath of the law as contained in the Edo State Secret Cult and other related activities prohibition law.
