00:00Policemen in Edo State of Nigeria have arrested seven persons suspected to be members of a secret cult group while the suspects were in the act trying to kill a commercial motorcycle driver also known as Okada Rider at Sapole Road Axis in Benin City.
00:15According to the Edo State Police Command spokesperson, Moses Yamu, policemen at the Love World Police Division quickly went after the suspected killers while they were dehumanizing the Okada Rider.
00:27In a statement issued on Tuesday, the police command said that, on 8 June 2025, acting on a distress call that some suspected cultists were cited dehumanizing an Okada Rider at Peanut Junction along Sapole Road.
00:42Operatives of the Love World Division immediately responded and arrested seven suspects namely, Eric Charles, 25 years, Gif Neres, 24 years, Odeon Asaro, 19 years, Festus Ossai, 26 years, Oazigodoro, 19 years, Samuel Sabi, 22 years, Destiny Bernard, 20 years while two yet to be identified escaped.
01:09Two of the suspects confessed to be members of the Mafite confraternity.
01:15One pestle, one machete, one live cartridge, and one tricycle with registration number AUC-184VH were recovered during the operation.
01:26Investigation is ongoing and suspects will soon be charged to court.
01:30The command's house to house arrests of identified cultists is ongoing and will be sustained till cultism is brought to the barest minimum.
01:38The Commissioner of Police, C.P. Monday Agbonica, FDC assures the general public that the command will continue to discharge its duty with utmost professionalism, Moses Yamu stated in the command news release.
01:51We have reported that the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Monday Agbonica, has announced the commencement of house-to-house arrest of people suspected or identified as members of a secret cult group in the south-south geopolitical state of Nigeria.
02:06We have reported that the Edo State Governor, Monday Agbonica, has called for more stakeholders' supports and actions towards ending secret cult-related killings and other organized violent crimes in the state, stating that the aged non-secret cult war in the south-south state of Nigeria has driven away a lot of investors.
02:27And as such, Edo State has been at a loss of $1 billion every year, with statistics, according to the governor showing that the natives of Edo State top the list of the highest diaspora remittances in Nigeria, but, over 95% of the natives divert the funds to other states to avoid secret cult violence in the state also known as the heartbeat of the nation.
02:49We have reported that the Edo State government, led by Governor Monday Agbonica, has issued an executive order, blacklisting a government-registered acclaimed sociocultural organization, the neo-black movement, NBM as a violent organization among those responsible for violent crimes of high rates of secret cult-related homicide killings in the state, and in a swift reaction, the president of the neo-black movement of Africa, NBM, Olorogunasekakor.
03:18While speaking with a panel of presenters at Arise News Television during the TV program, accused the governor, Monday Agbonica of allegedly using members of the Black Axe Confraternity during his election, adding that the governor never consulted with them to know if members of Black Axe Confraternity are also members of the neo-black movement, saying, the governor is now attacking NBM because of Black Axe, stressing that, Black Axe Confraternity is a criminal organization,
03:48insisting that, and shortly after the NBM president's statement, large group of youths in Edo State led a solidarity protest match to the Edo State Government House in Benin City to express their support and willingness to defend the government policies and actions to stop the massive destructions of lives and creation of young widows and high rates of fatherless children in the state due to secret cult activities.
04:16This, assessments of some of the pro-government policy protesters indicated that some of them are people who may have identified themselves in the past as members of the neo-black movement and they also appeared to be people very loyal to one of the prominent leaders of the NBM, Anthony Ardern aka Tony Kabaka who trended when he was interviewed about the activities of the NBM in a BBC documentary published by the British Broadcasting Service some years back.
04:44We have report that, in apparent anger, Edo State Government under the leadership of Governor Munday Okpebholo has issued a serious warning with a strong message sent to the president of the neo-black movement of Africa, NBM, Olorogunasekakor that the Edo State Government has started consultations to enable it take more appropriate legal action against the neo-black movement, saying,
05:11the international headquarters or secretariat of the movement situated at a MAGBA area in Benin City that was demolished last month by the state government, has been an enclave used for planning and execution of secret cult-related killings by members of the neo-black movement.
05:28The governor also referred to and described as black acts secret cult, probably expressing more anger that the leadership and members of the neo-black movement had the courage to come out publicly to identify themselves with the demolished building.
05:42The governor said they will be made to face prosecution, this, the national president of the neo-black movement, Olorogunasekakor while speaking in reaction to the demolished building on Arise News TV program, said,
05:56the movement is not black acts, emphasizing that black acts is a criminal organization while the neo-black movement is a social-cultural organization that promote and engage in humanitarian services.
06:08It would be recalled that we had reported that the Edo State Police Command of Nigeria Police Force has confirmed the arrest of 95 persons in connection with the killing of more than 15 people between April 25, 2025 and now in the renewed deadly and bloody apparent supremacy secret cult war in the state among members of the black acts confraternity,
06:30which started with the killing of a physiotherapist, simply identified as Alex, and another individual at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH Backgate, in Benin, with the Edo State Government led by Governor Munday Okpevolo launching a retaliatory war against businesses and individuals allegedly aiding secret cult
07:00killings in the killings in the state. Thus, sealed off Eterno Hotel, planned to demolish the hotel owed by People's Democratic Party, PDP Chieftain, Honorable Matthew Idarikemwan, who was the Director General of Aswan, Ogie, a campaign organization in the last governorship election in the state, on the ground that a particular secret cult group members gathered at the Eterno Hotel to plan their recent killings in the state, and in addition, the Edo State Governor also sealed off and marked a
07:30residential building for demolition, a residential building for demolition also owed by a PDP Chieftain, Francis Anegbaneki.
