Cult clash in Anambra: Police arrest four suspected cultists
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested four suspected cultists following a violent clash in Nsugbe, Anambra East Local Government Area. The confrontation, which broke out in the early hours of Tuesday behind Nwafor Orizu College of Education, saw armed men attack one another with cutlasses, bottles, daggers and other weapons, according to police. Police spokesperson SP Tochukwu Ikenga confirmed the arrests in a statement on Wednesday, noting that the suspects were apprehended during a joint police–vigilante operation. The suspects were named as: Oyachonam Friday (26) Akachukwu Ekwenze (23) David Chukwuma (25) Eziolise Aloysius (23) Ikenga said one of them, David Chukwuma, sustained machete injuries and is receiving medical treatment. All four reportedly confessed to belonging to the “AYES” confraternity. “The case is under investigation, while efforts are ongoing to apprehend others who fled into nearby bushes,” Ikenga stated, assuring […]