Abia Police Command has warned that there is no place for cultistism and other crimes in the state.
According to the statement, the cultists are all male suspects, aged between 18 and 28 years.
Exhibits recovered, the command listed, include “five (5) short guns, three (3) live ammunition, thirteen (13) mobile phones of different makes, two (2) cutlasses, one (1) axe, and one (1) black beret”
The police stated, “Following the recent upsurge in cult-related activities in the State, including the attack on 13/05/2026 at No. 29 Brass Road, Aba, where a young man was shot and macheted to death by a group of suspected cultists; and the attack on 24/05/2026 at Ehere, near Opobo Junction, where another young man was shot by suspected cultists”
“The Abia State Police Command, leveraging on actionable intelligence, took the fight to the criminals. Operatives of the Violent Crime Response Unit (VCRU), who successfully apprehended seventeen (17) suspected cultists linked to the aforementioned incidents in Aba, Abia State.
The suspects were arrested at their various meeting points and while en route to perpetrate further crimes and the above-listed exhibits were recovered from them. Investigation has been concluded and the suspects are being charged to court.”