“Shoot Any Cultists observed With Firearm” – Lagos Police Commissioner Orders officials

The Lagos nation Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, has said cultists will now be handled as robbers whenever they're arrested through the Police, stating that he has ordered policemen within the kingdom to shoot any cultist observed with a firearm.

The Police boss identified cultism as one of the most important security challenges bedevilling the kingdom, declaring that he is determined to position an cease to cult-related clashes in the nation.


Edgal, who made this observation whilst addressing protection stakeholders at the vicinity M, Police Command, Idimu, Lagos, warned mother and father throughout the state to caution their wards who're participants of numerous cult companies to live out of violence as he is prepared to deal ruthlessly with any character found to be a cultist within the state.

He additionally explained that he discovered all through interactions with stakeholders at the ongoing protection town corridor conferences throughout the country that maximum areas don’t enjoy violent crimes which includes robberies and kidnappings, however be afflicted by large cult-associated sports, which, he stated, had claimed many lives.

Edgal admitted that maximum components of the nation are presently being terrorised by means of cultists and vowed to overwhelm them, as he is prepared to put an give up to their sports.

He said the technology in which cultists are dealt with with youngster gloves while arrested is over, including that he will cope with anybody who's caught with firearms or any other risky weapon.

His phrases: “Cultism is currently a totally critical trouble we ought to tackle in Lagos kingdom and every body have to be worried. i'm completely out to address it head-on and that i urge parents to warn their children to live out of cultism and turn a new leaf because i am coming for them.

“The era where cultists apprehended with firearms are handled with youngster gloves is over. i have ordered my men to shoot at any cultist who is visible with a fireplace arm. This isn't always a joke, dad and mom must take this message domestic to their kids and warn them to desist from all cult-associated activities henceforth.

“i have also bolstered the Anti-Cultism branch of the Lagos state Police Command and i have directed them to transport all out to tune all cultists working within the kingdom.”