COMMUNITY REPORT
Delta: 43 Cultists Arrested As 5 Die In Renew Cult War In Jesse
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BIGPEN
Delta State Police Command, on Thursday, announced the arrested of 43 suspected cultists in connection with the cult war in Jesse, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state.
BIGPENNGR gathered that about five persons including an Okada rider was killed in the renewed rivalry between two cult groups in Idjerhe Kingdom.
It was learnt that the victims were killed between Sunday, March 13 and Wednesday when two cult group clashed in the oil producing area.
It was gathered that four persons were killed at Boboroku and Irodo communities of Idjerhe kingdom. Another victim, a motorcyclist popularly known as Okada rider was shot dead along the road on Sunday night
State Police Public Relation Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, Thursday, in a statement signed by the State Commissioner of Police, Ari Muhammed Ali, said that four suspected cultists died in the clashed which ensued on Monday, March 14, between Eiye and Arobaga confraternities in Jesse community.
He said that following the reported clash, the CP swiftly directed the Command State Anti-Cultism Unit, Dragon Patrol, Eagle-net special squad and Safe Delta Patrol teams to Jesse town with a view to ensuring that sanity is immediately restored in the Community.
Consequently, three male members of Arobaga confraternity namely: Victor John, Nelson Friday and Festus Friday who were alleged to have killed the four members of Eiye confraternity were arrested.
He said that investigation is ongoing, while sanity has been restored in the community.
One source, said the killings was connected to unending rivalry by two cult group ‘but this killing was something else, two of the five people who were killed were vigilante and an Okada rider’.
A resident who preferred anonymity, said “It was becoming a monthly thing. it’s always cult killings. Youths are being killed in their prime and we want action on this” he said in an emotion laden voice.
Sources said that security agencies are becoming handicapped over the incessant cult war in the area because, “the boys involved in these cult wars have political godfathers, hence the police have not been able to effect any arrest since the mindless killing started over a year ago.
“One of the victims of the recent killing is a loyalist of a prominent politician from the local government, so, we don’t want to join in their fight,” he added.
“Its a cult related matter, my brother, and we are doing everything to curb it, as I talk to you, security is on ground, and we have restored sanity is in that area,” Delta state Police spokesman, DSP Edafe Bright said earlier, when contacted on phone.
When contacted, the Monarch of Idjerhe kingdom, His Royal Majesty, King Monday Obukowho Whiskey (JP), who spoke in a telephone conversation, said that he had since placed a curse on cultists in his domain, saying those engaging in cultism would continue to suffer calamity.
‘I have since banned cultism in my domain and those still carrying out activities of cultism will suffer. It’s only one community that we have cultists’ unrest and not the entire Idjerhe kingdom. I am speaking from my palace and residents are going about their normal businesses so there is no issue of people fleecing Jesse as being posted on social media’, he said.
He said that one of the youth allegedly sponsoring the cult war has been arrested and transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the state Police Command.
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