The QIS recovered over 226 wraps of Indian hemps, , 258 wraps of substance suspected to be cocaine, one kitchen knife and a scissors from the suspects.
ASP Innocent Ayabotu, the second in command of the QIS, said that following the menace of cultists in Calabar in the recent past, the squad, acting on intelligence report that some suspected cultists were hiding at a shrine near Etim Edem motor park swooped on the place and arrested the suspects.
Ayabotu also disclosed that areas where the cult activities had been fierce in the state capital such as Jebbs Street, Anantigha area, Atamunu, Ibesikpo and Afokang, were raided and some persons arrested.
Reacting to the arrest, the Security Adviser to Governor Liyel Imoke, Mr. Rekpene Bassey said that the state governor had been vehement on the war against cultism, saying that for the governor, the war is total and if nothing drastic is done, it could destroy the people.
Bassey said that the governor had been appealing to the youths to give up cultism and that as the governor had noted, none of the cult members put his membership into the cult in his curriculum vitae or write that he is the leader of a particular cult.
He said that cultism is destructive and sheer criminality, stressing that it is an evil wind that blows no one any good.
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