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Bauchi State Police Command has arrested four suspected members of a cult group during an initiation ceremony held opposite Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Gubi Campus.
Spokesperson of the command, SP Mohammed Wakil, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, September 8, 2023, said efforts are ongoing to arrest the fleeing accomplices.
“On 03/09/2023 at about 1700hrs operatives of the Command acted on credible Intelligence and arrested four suspected cult members namely; Eric Nuhu ‘m’ aged 23yrs a 500-level student of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi, Zaharaddeen Hassan ‘m’ aged 19yrs old an ND one (1) student of Federal Polytechnic Bauchi, Felix John ‘m’ aged 24yrs of HND one (1) student of Federal Polytechnic Bauchi and Daniel Masaka of Karu LGA of Nassarawa State,” the statement read.“During interrogation, the first and second suspects confessed to have been invited by one of their classmates named Abbas Apeh ‘m’, a 500-level student of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi and were initiated into the cultism group on 02/09/2023 around midnight while the third and fourth suspects confessed to have since been members of the cult group for long known as Black axe, they were invited by their group members to join the initiation event of the newcomers, which took place in an outskirt of Bauchi, opposite ATBU Gubi Campus, along Kano-Bauchi road“Efforts are on top gear to arrest the fleeing accomplices, after which the suspects will be charged to Court for prosecution of the established Offences accordingly.”
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