ASABA – No fewer than 12 members from different cult groups have been killed and others injured in the last one week in the ongoing cult war across major cities and towns in Delta State.
Investigation conducted by our correspondent revealed that areas mostly affected are Udu, Enerhen, Sapele, Ughelli, Ozoro and Oghara.
These areas record incidences of cult activities daily.
In Udu Local Government Area, where cult activities were reported to have reached its climax, rival cult members were said to have trailed rivals to homes and drinking bars to kill. In the process, they hurt indigenes of the area.
Sources close to the Udu Council of Elders, who spoke with our correspondent, disclosed that within the last two weeks, about nine persons had been killed in series of attacks and reprisal between two rival cults groups including the Aiye and Ogbu.
It was gathered that some major hotels in Udu area now play host to these cult groups. It is from some of these hotels that the members plot their next strike.
A joint police sting operations, coordinated from the office of the Area Commander and led by Divisional Police Officer, B Division, Okumagba Avenue, a Chief Superintendent of Police, Anietie Eyoh, witnessed the arrest of over 36 cult members during the raid of Victory View Hotel and Freenice Hotel along the DSC Expressway during a raid that was carried out last weekend.
A raid of Enerhen community also witnessed arrest of over 15 cult members in a raid of some notorious hideouts. Residents, who had been living in fear, applauded the police raids.
Confirming the incidences of cultism, the Police Public Relations Officer, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Andrew Aniamaka, stated that the recent invasions of hotels and other hideout of cultists and other criminals were carried out based on intelligent report made available to the police.
