No fewer than 22 suspected cult members have been arrested by the special squad of the Ogun State Police Command given the charge to checkmate the activities of cults in Ogun State.
The squad, headed by the Assistant Commissioner of Police Department of Operation, was set up in view of the disturbance caused in the state by suspected cult members.
In a statement made available on Monday, the spokesman of the Ogun State Police Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspects were said to have confessed to being members of Aye and Eiye confraternities.
They were said to have been arrested when the special squad stormed their hideouts at Mayas area of Lafenwa and Oju Ogbara in Sapon area of Abeokuta.
Some of the suspects were also apprehended in Sagamu during a similar operation carried out by the squad.
All the arrested suspects, Oyeyemi said, were already being investigated to ascertain their roles in the cult war that engulfed the Ssate recently which claimed the life of some suspected cult members.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, who commended the quick response of the squad has urged them to take the battle to the doorsteps of all known cult members in the state.
He therefore appealed to members of the public to always cooperate with the team by giving them necessary information that would enhance their operation, as security is everybody’s business.
