Cultism Becoming Old Fashion As Over 200 Youths quits.
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Call
it the dividend of Community of policing if you like but the fact is
that the frequent visits to Ikorodu and environs by the Commissioner of
Police, Lagos State, CP Imohimi Edgal, where he had sought community
partnership in crime prevention and general safety has led 200 youths of
Ikorodu, Lagos who hitherto belonged to different cult groups such as
Black Axe, Buccaneers, Aiye and Eiye secret confraternities to renounce
their memberships of the underworld associations.
This latest
renunciation of cultism brings the number of youths who had so far
dumped the evil association in Lagos state to 860 youths.
Speaking
at the occasion, the CP congratulated the youths for choosing the path
of peace and progress and forsaking the path of death and destruction.
He urged the youths not only renounce cultism but to denounce it in its
entirety and do their best to pull their friends who are still inside
the evil association, out of it.
The CP also
thanked the traditional ruler of Ikorodu land, Oba Kabiru Shotobi and
members his cabinet for keying effectively into the Community policing
strategy of the Inspector General of Police and for their roles in
convincing the youths of their land to quit cultism. He further thanked
the Chairman of the Local government, Hon. Wasiu for agreeing to provide
vocational training for the youths to enable them reintegrate fully
into society.
The CP ended his speech by
directing the Area Commander in charge of Ikorodu, Acp Mohammdu Amodu to
document, profile and obtain the biometrics of all the repented youths
and reach out to them from to time.
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