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Services Front Page Back Page Advert Rates Subscription News Home National International Business News Abuja Reports Sports Politics Sun Girl Editorial Editorial Issues Letters Opinion Columnists Community Standard Guestbook View Guestbook Sun Chatroom   Features Apettit Arts BlockBuster CEO Magazine Celebrity Fashion City Sun Crime Watch Covert Choice CyberSun Enterprise Everyday Heroes Exquisite Property Fashion & Celebrity Fashion & Beauty Favourite File Health Magazine How I write Life Style Living Mafia Series Man in the street Man in the pulpit Managing a Law Firm Me & My God Media People Money Motoring Power Game Romance Romantic Faction Senior Citizen Showtime Smoking Guns Sun Splash Sunlight of Islam Travels Window of the world Window on widows Woman of the Sun Women in Business Women & Me Videoscope Weekend Sun Saturday Sun Sunday Sun Weekend Sports Weekend Cartoons Company Profile About Us Management Contact Us   Police recovers 85 weapons from cultists By CHRIS IKWUNZE, Port Harcourt Friday July 16, 2004   National Index   The raid on Amadi-Ama, a suburb of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, by a combined team of army, navy and police has led to the recovery of about 85 different makes of arms from cultists operating in the area. The River State Commissioner of Police, Mr Sylvester Araba, who spoke to newsmen on the raid gave a breakdown of the arms as 80 sophisticated rifles, three assault rifles and two barrette rifles. He said that 74 people were arrested during the early morning raid last Tuesday by the combined team, an exercise he said would be carried out in all the other tows, believed to be habouring cultists and their godfathers. The commissioner however denied that several persons lost their lives during the raid, saying that only minor injuries were sustained by few persons. He said that the raid was in response to the escalating cases of cultism and cult activities which had resulted in the death of many prominent persons and destruction of properties. Following the passage of the Anti-Cult Law, government had appealed to all the cultists to renounce their membership if the monester, turn-over their weapons and at rewarded, but they refuse to heed the clarion call, so something had to be done, the police boss said. He said that the war would be carried to the door-step of the cultists and their sponsors until the entire state was rid of the menace. It would be recalled that Governor Peter Odili had last week during a retreat for top government functionaries told the head of the security units in the state to flush all cultists in the state or be prepared to be re-deployed out of Rivers State.         HOME | ABOUT THE SUN | SPORTS | POLITICS | NEWS | COLUMNISTS | CONTACT US I ADVERT RATE © 2004 THE SUN PUBLISHING LTD. This service is provided on The Sun Newspapers' standard terms and conditions in accordance with our Privacy Policy. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material and other inquiries, Contact Us.

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