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Police arrest Ebonyi APC Financial Secretary, 19 others for cultism

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The Enugu State Police acommand has arrested the Financial Secretary of the Ebonyi State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Okenwa Uka and 19 others for belonging to a cult.

The suspects were paraded on Monday by the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmad Abdulrahman, after arrest for allegedly belonging to a suspected cult group, Norsemen Vikings Confraternity.

Also paraded were nine other suspects, who were arrested in various parts of Enugu State for various crimes ranging from armed robbery, kidnapping, murder and cultism.

Abdulrahman said the 20 suspected cultists were arrested at a hotel in GRA, Enugu, where they were holding a meeting on September 7, 2019, following intelligence information.

Abdulrahman stated further that members of the Vikings Confraternity went in disguise to the Corporate Affairs Commission and registered the De Norsemen Kclub Inc. as a “simple organisation.”

According to him, a banner with the symbol/logo of the Norsemen, which is the same as that of Vikings Confraternity ‘Arrow Mate’ and envelopes containing documents and paper presented by one Henry Oputa, were recovered from the group.

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Similarly, Abdulrahman paraded one Tochukwu Ugwu and Prince Samuel Nnamani, leaders of the Vikings and Aiye Confraternity in Nsukka.

Tochukwu, who hails from Orba, the state governor’s home town in the Udenu Local Government Area, confessed to belonging to a cult.

According to the suspect, who was wearing army lifejacket, he was working with a soldier based in Kano, who is now at large, adding that he supplied him the lifejacket and arms to protect himself.

He said the soldier was a member of the Vikings Confraternity and he gave him a bulletproof vest and gun to keep for him.

On his part Nnamani, who hails from Agbani in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state, confessed to being a leader of the Aye confraternity.

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