Police operatives attached to the Quick Response Squad (QRS) of Delta State Police Command have arrested three suspected cultists in possession of a locally made cut-to-size pistol and four live cartridges.

The suspects, 26-year-old Chukwuma Owoh, 32-year-old Ediri Ogendengbe, and 38-year-old Alfred Kess, were arrested on August 5, during a stop and search along Pessu corner in Warri.

“One of the Suspects, Chukwuma Owoh confessed that he bought the gun from one Haruna of Hausa market, Warri and that he was on his way to Pessu in search of some Aiye confraternity cult members that attacked his younger sister. The suspects are currently in custody and the investigation is ongoing,” the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, stated.

Meanwhile, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Ari Muhammed Ali, while urging officers and men of the Command to sustain the tempo, admonished them to be polite and civil to members of the public while on duty.

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