The recovered gun. Photo: Delta Police Command
The Delta State Police Command has arrested 11 suspected cultists and recovered firearms, ammunition and other dangerous weapons in separate operations across the state.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Asaba.
Edafe said the operations were part of the command’s intensified crackdown on cultism, illegal possession of firearms and other violent crimes.
According to the statement, operatives of the Buffalo Patrol Team on May 14, 2026, at about 11:09am, stormed a suspected cultist hideout at Eagle Square along Okpanam Road in Asaba following a distress call.
