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The Oyo State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of 11 individuals suspected to be cult members at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology.

Police authorities disclosed that every one of the arrested suspects is a student of the institution.

The development was announced in a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, Olayinka Ayanlade.

The statement was released to journalists on Saturday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

According to Ayanlade, preliminary investigations identified the suspects as members of the cult group known as the Eiye Confraternity.

He added that security operatives recovered several incriminating items from the suspects during the operation.

The police spokesperson further alleged that the group had concluded plans to carry out an attack within the university community.

He explained that officers acted swiftly after receiving credible intelligence, successfully preventing the planned assault before it could be executed.

Items recovered during the operation include four locally made cut-to-size pistols, 11 live cartridges, one expended cartridge, two cult axes, one cutlass, one dagger knife, and a red hooded cap believed to be associated with cult activities.

“Acting on credible intelligence received by the Command, operatives of the Command’s Violent Crime Response Unit (VCRU) were deployed after it was established that members of the dreaded Eiye Confraternity had converged at their hideout within the Under-G, Yuako, and Adenike areas, where they were allegedly perfecting plans to launch coordinated attacks within the student community capable of causing widespread unrest.

“The recovered exhibits include, four locally fabricated cut-to-size pistols, eeven live cartridges, one expended cartridge, two cult axes, one cutlass, one dagger knife and one red cult hooded cap,” he said.

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