Police Arrests 63 'Black Axe' Cultists During Initiation In Akwa Ibom

The Akwa Ibom Police Command on Sunday arrested 63 persons, suspected to be members of ‘Black Axe,’ a cult group.DSP Etim Dickson, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), announced this while briefing newsmen in Uyo.

He said that the suspected cult members were arrested during their initiation at Effoi village forest, near Eket.The police image maker said that some of the items recovered from the cultists include two locally-made pistols, five live cartridges, two axes and two drums.

Other items are five black berets with ‘Aye’ insignia, three cars, one bus, two motorcycles, 10 cell phones; and a contain, containing substance suspected to be blood.He said that all the suspects confessed to being members of ‘Black Axe’ adding that they would be charged to court soon.

“All the suspects will be charged to court. You know the activity of cult group is becoming too rampant,’’ Dickson said.

He appealed to members of the public to volunteer information about criminal activities in their area to the police for prompt action. (NAN). culled

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University Cultists Force Female Students To Act Lesbian Film

The Nigerian Army in Enugu has paraded 21 Enugu State University of Science and Technology students for allegedly torturing and forcing some female students to have stuff among themselves.

The students, most of who confessed to being cultists, told journalists that they took video shots of the lésbian act because they had been offered money by some influential Nigerians.

The idea, the suspects said, was to take tapes of the scenes to their partners in Europe.

Shortly before parading the suspects on Saturday, the General Officer Commanding 82 Division, Maj. Gen. Sarkin Yaki Bello, who spoke through the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Lt. Col. Sagir Musa, said the cultists, were arrested in their hideouts at Agbani on the outskirts of Enugu between July 8 and 12, 2011.

Bello said the patrol team of 103 Battalion moved to the ESUT following persistent gunshots at the institution on July 4 and arrested one of the masterminds of the crime, Mr Franklin Anikwe, with five rounds of ammunition.

The GOC said he had directed that a thorough investigation be carried out in order to fish out the pepetrators.

He said, “It was the preliminary investigation conducted by the division’s intelligence group that led to the arrest of the 19 other suspects. Some of the items recoverd from them are four locally made pistols, 10AA cartridges and video clips where the female students were forced to have illicit stuff with themselves during the raid.”

Also recovered were 10 mobile telephone handsets, including the one used for recording the dirty scenes.

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Cultist K**lled In Unijos Today After K**lling Student

The students of University of Jos today braved the odds by apprehending one of the cultists that invaded the university. 

According to a I Reporter the cultist came into the University permanent site in Jos for a mission to k**ll a student. 

Unfortunately they mistakenly k**lled a wrong student. Immediately this was done, they took to their heels.

 Some of the students that witnessed the incident gave them a hot chase and apprehended the one in this picture and gunned him down with the gun which he used in the killing as seen in the picture. 

The police were then called in to evacuate his corpse.The gun used is being held by the police on the right.As of the time of filling in this report,the atmosphere within the university environment was still tensed.

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37 suspected cultists docked in Calabar

37 persons suspected to be members of secret cults, which have been terrorizing Calabar, the Cross River State capital, were, on Friday, arraigned at a Magistrate Court, Calabar presided over by Chief Magistrate Emmanuel Okokon for alleged armed robbery and then remanded at Afokang Prison.

Residents of Calabar, for over four days, had lived in fears following the activities of persons suspected to be members of secret cults. The state police public relations officer, Mr. Hogan Bassey, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, identified the cultists as members of the Vikings and KKK.

The suspects were also said to have engaged in supremacy battle over which group controls a political party’s congresses.

Reading the charge, a police prosecutor, Inspector Nku Jones, said the suspects and others at large on 13 March, 2012 at about “1900 hours at Lugard Street Calabar while armed with offensive weapons to wit, locally made pistols and machetes, did attack and robbed one Effiom Akpan of the sum of N500,000”.

Magistrate Okokon, after hearing the charge, adjourned the matter to 9 April, and ordered that the suspects be remanded at Afokang Prisons in Calabar South.

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