The Edo State Police Command said it has arrested an alleged cultist and serial killer responsible for the killing of 38 persons.
A statement signed by the Command’s spokesperson DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, on Monday in Benin, stated that the suspect was arrested last Tuesday following receipt of credible intelligence.
He revealed that the 37-year-old suspect was about to kill another victim before being apprehended.
Nwabuzor said that two guns were found on the suspect upon his arrest while a further search at his residence led to the recovery of a double barrel gun.
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According to the statement, the unnamed suspect during further interrogation at the State Criminal Investigation Department made useful statements and confessed to the killing of 38 persons.
The police spokesman, said though, that the state’s Commissioner of Police, CP Mohammed DanMallam, had directed further investigation into the case, quoting the CP as handing down three options to criminal elements in the state – submit to the police, vacate the state or face the consequences.
The commissioner while appealing to law abiding citizens of the state to go about their normal businesses warned that under his watch, the command was ready to flush out criminals or bring them to justice through due process.
