Nine suspected cultists who engaged in fighting and causing trouble in Ifo and its environs have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command.

This was disclosed on Friday by the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Kenneth Ebrimson.

Ebrimson said that in the course of the week, he had directed area police command around the Sango-Ota and its environs to deploy personnel to the area due to the fight that broke out as a result of supremacy battle between two rival cults.

“These hoodlums are using the opportunity to steal and commit others criminal activities around Ifo and the environs,” Ebrimson said in a statement by the State Police Public Relation Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi.

According to him, it was the development that necessitated the deploying of SARS, Anti-cultism Unit and Anti-kidnapping Unit to areas like Ifo, Owode-Ijako, Joju, Ijoko and Agbado, which led to the arrest of six suspected cultists.

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He explained that five suspected cultists were arrested at Ijako area of Sango-Ota, while another was arrested around Winners Church area, along Idiroko.

Ebrimson added that the suspect nabbed around Winners Church was caught with a locally made short gun loaded with five live cartridges and charms.

He said that the operatives extended their operation to Araromi community in Agbado, where three other suspects were arrested with face mask and charms.