ANAMBRA POLICE ACTION ON THE CULT CLASH THAT RESULTED IN THE FATAL INJURY OF FOUR PERSONS AT AFOR NAWFIA MARKET. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 ANAMBRA POLICE ACTION ON THE CULT CLASH THAT RESULTED IN THE FATAL INJURY OF FOUR PERSONS AT AFOR NAWFIA MARKET The Anambra State Police Command wishes to provide a comprehensive update on the cult-related attack that occurred on the evening of 7th December 2025 at Afor Nawfia Market, along the Onitsha–Awka Old Road. It will be recalled that operatives of the Command attached to the Special Anti-Cult Squad, Enugwu-Ukwu, had, four days earlier, acting on credible intelligence about a planned rival cult confrontation, arrested two dangerous suspects and recovered a firearm from them. The arrested suspects have been assisting the Police with valuable information aimed at preventing further cult-related violence within Awka and its environs. Despite these proactive efforts by the Command operatives, some members of the same gang, on the evening of 7th December 2025, operating in a black Lexus Jeep with registration number yet unknown, stormed Afor Nawfia Market and opened fire indiscr...

TWO SUSPECTED INTERNET FRAUDSTERS ARRESTED FOR KILLING A 40 YEARS OLD MAN FOR RITUAL. (PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE.



TWO SUSPECTED INTERNET FRAUDSTERS ARRESTED FOR KILLING A 40 YEARS OLD MAN FOR RITUAL. 


Operatives of Ogun state Police Command have arrested two suspected internet fraudsters popularly call yahoo Boys for killing a 40 years old man Abdullahi Azeez , cut him to pieces and used him for money making ritual. 

The suspects; Friday Abinya Odeh 21 years old and Poso Idowu 20 years were arrested following a report lodged at Owode Egba divisional headquarters on the 9th of June 2022 by the relations of the victim, who reported that the victim left his home at Kobape area on the 8th of June 2022 and did not return since then. 

Upon the report, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, directed the anti kidnapping unit of the state Criminal Investigation Departments to take over the investigation and unravel the mystery behind the sudden disappearance of the man. 

In compliance with the CP's directive, the SP Taiwo Opadiran led team subsequently embarked on technical and intelligence based investigation which led them to the hideout of Friday Abinya Odeh on the 22nd of September 2022, where the Airtel Sim card of the victim was recovered.

His arrest led to the apprehension of his accomplice Poso Idowu.
On interrogation, the suspects confessed that they kidnapped the victim on the 8th of June 2022 at kobape area, at about 7:30 pm, from where they forcefully took him to the bush, killed him and pieces his body. 

They confessed further that it was one herbalist simply identified as Arab money who they claimed to have contacted on Facebook that prescribed the ritual for them All efforts to recover the remains of the victim proved abortive as the suspects claimed to have disposed it. 

Meanwhile, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the suspects be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.

Cc: Ogun State police command 


 

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