Police operatives from the Lagos State Command have dismantled a suspected faux Indian occult temple set as much as defrauded harmless folks and within the course of arrested two of the suspects behind the purported temple.…CONTINUE READING
P.M.EXPRESS stories that two of the suspects behind the ‘Indian Occult Temple’ setup In Lagos included Ifeanyi Nwodo, 39 and Daniel Johnson, 32, had been among the many 34 suspected criminals paraded for numerous crimes by the Commissioner of Police, CP Fayoade Adegoke, on the State Command headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos.
Whereas parading the suspects, Police boss acknowledged that the suspects, Nwodo and Johnson, had been arrested at Agufoye space of Ikorodu, by means of credible data which led to their arrest.
He defined that the 2 suspects had been arrested for allegedly making an attempt to arrange an occultic shrine named ‘Indian Occultic Temple’ and their intention was to defraud victims by making them consider that the oracle has powers to make them wealthy and profitable.
“On thirteenth January, 2024, at about 1500 hours, primarily based on credible intelligence that some boys had been seen making occultic practices round Agufoye space of Ikorodu, operatives of the Command swiftly arrested one Ifeanyi Nwodo ‘m’ aged 39 and Dainel Johnson ‘m’ aged 32.
“Investigations revealed that they had been making an attempt to arrange their occultic shrine named ‘Indian Occultic Temple’ with intent to defraud victims by making them consider that the oracle has powers of constructing them wealthy and profitable. A number of occult objects together with moulded human head, crafted human effigies had been discovered of their shrine,” the Commissioner of Police, CP Adegoke acknowledged.
CP Adegoke, who’s barely one month in workplace as CP of Lagos, mentioned a complete of 16 firearms had been recovered within the final one month, together with a toy pistol, 72 dwell cartridges, 75 dwell ammunition, one expended cartridge, one pistol journal, six axes, 4 daggers, one digger, 5 cutlasses, two autos, one POS machine, faux registration plates and numerous charms.
“it’s with nice sense {of professional} fulfilment I stand earlier than you at the moment to current to you our achievements in Lagos State Command since my assumption of responsibility roughly a month in the past. Earlier than you at the moment, we’ve a complete of thirty-four (34) suspects who’ve engaged in various crimes together with armed theft, stealing, cultism and illegal possession of firearms and many others.”
“From all these instances which we efficiently cracked, we recovered a complete of sixteen (16) firearms together with a toy pistol, seventy-two (72) dwell cartridges, seventy-five (75) dwell ammunition, one expended cartridge, one pistol journal, six axes, 4 daggers, one digger, 5 cutlasses, two (2) autos, one POS Machine, faux registration plates and numerous charms,” the CP mentioned.
He acknowledged that each one suspects can be charged to Court docket on the conclusion of investigations by the Police.
He assured Lagosians that the Command below his watch would proceed to do all the things operationally attainable to make sure that crime and criminality is dropped at the barest minimal within the state.
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