{"id":12131,"date":"2021-03-23T14:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T13:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=12131"},"modified":"2021-03-23T14:28:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T13:28:30","slug":"police-arrest-three-suspected-cultists-for-allegedly-killing-two-men-in-okija","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/23\/police-arrest-three-suspected-cultists-for-allegedly-killing-two-men-in-okija\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest three suspected cultists for allegedly killing two men in Okija"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three suspected cultists have been arrested by operatives of Anambra state police for allegedly killing two men in the\u00a0Okija area of the state on March 20.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Tochukwu Ikengwa.<\/p>\n<p>The PPRO stated\u00a0that the police operatives following an intensive manhunt of the perpetrators of the killers of both men, apprehended the suspects identified as Ekene Ezeokalo M&#8217;, aged 19, native of Ukpor in Nnewi,\u00a0 Emeka Iwuozor M&#8217;, aged 30yrs, native of Umuduru Ezia Ihiala and Chigozie Ohanaziem M&#8217;,27yrs, native of Ogboro Umunwaji Ihiala.<\/p>\n<p>Ikenga said investigation reveals that they are all members of a deadly secret cult and that they all confessed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/17\/nigeria-16th-worst-affected-by-internet-crimes-fbi\/\">crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar development, police operatives while on a routine patrol on 21st March, 2021, got intelligence from the Divisional Police Officer Abagana in Njikoka LGA that unknown persons had in their possession unexploded IEDs which they were about to sell in a condemned Iron Site. The operatives quickly mobilized and went to the site and recovered the unexploded IEDs. The recovered exhibits are now in the custody of the Explosives Ordnance Department (EOD) for further analysis.<\/p>\n<p>He said all the suspects will be charged to court on completion of an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>See Photos:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12133 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c48395b5b.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c48395b5b.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c48395b5b-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12134 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c473abb8b.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c473abb8b.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c473abb8b-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12135 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c45f8e730.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c45f8e730.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c45f8e730-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c45f8e730-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12136 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c44d07b0d.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c44d07b0d.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c44d07b0d-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c44d07b0d-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12137 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c40d21435.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c40d21435.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c40d21435-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/03\/23\/6059c40d21435-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three suspected cultists have been arrested by operatives of Anambra state police for allegedly killing two men in the\u00a0Okija area of the state on March 20. This was contained in a statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Tochukwu Ikengwa. The PPRO stated\u00a0that the police operatives following an intensive manhunt of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":12139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1347,207,3366,3365],"class_list":["post-12131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-anambra-state","tag-killings","tag-okija","tag-suspected-cultists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police arrest three suspected cultists for allegedly killing two men in Okija<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Three suspected cultists have 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