OPERATIVES of the Imo State Police Command have
killed one suspected cultist identified as Chimaobi
Iheme and arrested two during a gun battle.
Iheme and other cult members, who had converged on
Egbu Community Girls Secondary School for a meeting
on Sunday, June 28, 2015, were said to have started
shooting immediately they sighted the police.
Iheme, who was hit by a bullet, was said to have died
while receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital.
Confirming the incident, the state Commissioner of
Police, Mr. Austin Evbakhavbokun, said security
operatives arrested two suspected cultists. He identified
the suspects as Opara Chinwekene (25) and Amarikwa
Tochukwu Franklyn (24), stating that they were
members of Neo Black and Black Axe cult groups
respectively.
The suspects, according to Evbakhabokun, are from
Mpama village in Owerri North Local Government Area
of Imo State.
He further disclosed that security operatives, who acted
on a tip-off, swooped on the cult members at Egbu
Community Girls Secondary School in Owerri while they
were holding a meeting.
Evbakhavbokun said the cultists had been terrorizing
the Egbu community and its environs before their
arrest.
“They were 15 in number in that meeting. On sighting
the police, the cultists engaged the police in a gun
duel. Two of the cult members received gun shots and
were arrested while others escaped.
“One Chimaobi Iheme (SAKA), who was known as Lord
gave up the ghost while receiving treatment,” the
commissioner of police, who spoke through the Deputy
Commissioner of Police (Administration), Mr. Dave
Akinremi, added.
He listed items recovered from them as three locally-
made pistols, seven live cartridges, four expended
cartridges, two cutlasses, one axe, six GSM phones,
one tricycle and one motorcycle.
One of the suspected cultists apprehended by the
police, Amarikwa, said he was a student of Federal
Polytechnic Nekede Owerri.
Amarikwa said, “We are only cultists and not armed
robbers. We were all at the meeting when police
came. My friend was stubborn and that was why the
police shot him on the leg.”
Police, Mr. Austin Evbakhavbokun, said security
operatives arrested two suspected cultists. He identified
the suspects as Opara Chinwekene (25) and Amarikwa
Tochukwu Franklyn (24), stating that they were
members of Neo Black and Black Axe cult groups
respectively.
The suspects, according to Evbakhabokun, are from
Mpama village in Owerri North Local Government Area
of Imo State.
He further disclosed that security operatives, who acted
on a tip-off, swooped on the cult members at Egbu
Community Girls Secondary School in Owerri while they
were holding a meeting.
Evbakhavbokun said the cultists had been terrorizing
the Egbu community and its environs before their
arrest.
“They were 15 in number in that meeting. On sighting
the police, the cultists engaged the police in a gun
duel. Two of the cult members received gun shots and
were arrested while others escaped.
“One Chimaobi Iheme (SAKA), who was known as Lord
gave up the ghost while receiving treatment,” the
commissioner of police, who spoke through the Deputy
Commissioner of Police (Administration), Mr. Dave
Akinremi, added.
He listed items recovered from them as three locally-
made pistols, seven live cartridges, four expended
cartridges, two cutlasses, one axe, six GSM phones,
one tricycle and one motorcycle.
One of the suspected cultists apprehended by the
police, Amarikwa, said he was a student of Federal
Polytechnic Nekede Owerri.
Amarikwa said, “We are only cultists and not armed
robbers. We were all at the meeting when police
came. My friend was stubborn and that was why the
police shot him on the leg.”
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