*………conducts raids of blackspots*
By Ebinum Samuel
The Edo State Command has sustained its fight against crime through visibility policing, community engagements and sustained raids of criminal hideouts in the State.
On 4/6/2025 between 1600hrs and 2200hrs, operatives of the Command carried out raids of criminal hideouts within Benin-City. During the raids, twenty-eight (28) persons were arrested and professionally screened where nineteen (19) of them found implicated, were charged to court.
In continuation of its fight against cultism, the Command has commenced the house-to-house arrests of identified cult members in the State to ensure that cultism is either eliminated or brought to its barest minimum. Three (3)suspects who were arrested from various locations have confessed to being members of the Eiye and Aye confraternities respectively.
They have been arraigned before the court accordingly.
On this note, CP Monday Agbonika, fdc expresses confidence that the general public would have no fear of crimes as he warned all cult members to either denounce cultism and turn a new leaf, relocate from the State or face the full wrath of the law as contained in the Edo State Secret Cult and other related activities prohibition law.
The Command can be reached on the following lines:
Control Room: 08037646272/08077773721
Public Complaints Bureau (PCB): 08150999335
Complaints Response Unit (CRU): 08100389992