BENIN CITY – The Edo State Police Command has admonished parents of suspected cultists in the state to go and bury their heads in shame rather than stampede the command into releasing their wards and children.
The command’s spokesman, ASP Peter Ogboi, stated this while commenting on the arrest of 22 suspected criminals, 12 of whom were young men believed to be cultists allegedly caged at a school compound in Benin City while holding a secret meeting.
Disclosing that the documents found on the suspects showed that they had two guns, ASP Ogboi decried the attitude of some parents who believed that their wards were innocent despite incriminating evidences against them.
While urging parents to take proactive measures towards discouraging their children from engaging in cultism, the command spokesman stated that “cultism now provides an avenue for recruitment into vices such as robbery, assassination, kidnapping”, adding that “one would conclude that as soon as we reduce the number of cultists, we would have succeeded in reducing the number of people going into robbery and so, it is important for parents to begin to help us”, he said.
It will be recalled that some parents of arrested suspected cultists had pestered the police with the excuse the that their wards would be made to genuinely denounce cultism as soon as they were released to them.
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