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The Edo State Police Command has arrested two persons suspected to be cultists at the weekend in Benin City, capital of Edo State.
The two suspects whose names were given as Ratmond Imasuen (32) and Precious Ajayi (24) were said to have been arrested at Etiosa community, along the Benin-Sapele Road bypass.
According to a statement by the Edo State Police Public Relations Officer, Bello Kotongs, the suspects were caught with one pump action gun and some dry leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.
Kotongs disclosed that the suspects belonged to one of the deadly cult groups terrorising innocents citizen within Benin City and environ, adding that the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Phillip Ogbadu, has reiterated his commitment for a crime free Edo State by directing all area commanders, DPO’s and tactical commanders to intensify visibility within the state with the aim of arresting unrelenting criminal element in the state.
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Six months after the October 19, 2020 jailbreaks at the Benin and Oko Medium Security Correctional Centres in Benin City, Edo State, over 1,685 inmates are still at large, The Guardian investigations have revealed.
The jailbreak was one of the high points of last year’s #EndSARS protests, which were purportedly hijacked by hoodlums. x
Before the incident, the two correctional facilities had 1, 993 inmates comprising those convicted to life imprisonment and awaiting-trial inmates.
The Correctional Centre in Benin City on the Benin-Sapele Road was built in 1906, while the Oko Prisons along Airport was created in the late 1980s.
The Guardian learned that of the 1, 835 inmates that escaped from the correctional centres, only 141 inmates have either been rearrested or returned voluntarily.