The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement on Sunday, said 12 of the arrested suspects were females.

Adejobi said they were apprehended during a sting operation carried out by the Commissioner of Police Strike Force between Friday, 5 and Sunday 7 March, 2021.

The police spokesperson said one 26-year-old Gbamila Iyabo, who was identified as the wife of a leading suspected cultist of Aye Confraternity in Igbokuta, was arrested with a pump action loaded with eight rounds of cartridges.

It was also said that 29-year-old Salisu Islamiyat, f, 29, wife of another top cultist of Aye Confraternity in Emure, was nabbed with a locally-made pistol with some live cartridges.

“The thirty eight (38) male and twelve (12) suspects include Oladunni Abiodun, m, 20, Dosumu Oluwaseun, 22, Segun Adelaja, 29, Gbamila Iyabo, f, 26, wife of the Number 1 of Aye Confraternity in Igbokuta, arrested with one pump action loaded with 8 rounds of cartridges. Salisu Islamiyat, f, 29, wife of the Number 1 of Aye Confraternity in Emure, arrested with a locally-made pistol with some live cartridges.

“Abiodun Abbey, (aka Oju Ogunle), alleged to have killed more than twenty two (22) people in Ikorodu area, and 44 others.”

The Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, was also said to have confirmed the arrest of six suspected cultists at Ibeju-Lekki area by the police operatives attached to Elemoro division.

This, BLENKAS learnt, was in compliance with the directive Odumosu on constant raids of criminals’ hideouts in Eti Osa Local Government Area.

The suspects were identified as Adeyemi Hassan, Adesoye Yusuf, Yusuf Sadiku, Ismaila Adebanjo (an ex-convict who is a leader of Aye Confraternity), Monsuru Ojo and Tajudeen Ramon.

The political dissident guaranteed his allies from jail in Benin republic, saying that he isn't apprehensive about the Federal Government. 

Allies of troubled Yoruba country instigator, Sunday Adeyemo otherwise known as Sunday Igboho have been encouraged not to surrender. 

The political dissident guaranteed his allies from jail in Benin republic, saying that he isn't apprehensive about the Federal Government. 

He added that he isn't reluctant to be removed back to Nigeria. 

Igboho, in a spilled discussion posted by BBC Yoruba acquired by The Nation, said that he has acknowledged his destiny regarding his present struggles. 

Checks by The Nation uncovered that Igboho has gone through more than one month in detainment since he was 'captured' by the agents of Brigade criminelle (Criminal Brigade) on July 19 in Cotonou. 

The 48-year-old fomenter, who was first kept at the Brigade économique et financière (BEF), is at Prison Civile de Cotonou — Cotonou Civil Prison. 

In the last judgment, the Cour De'appal De Cotonou requested that Igboho ought to be kept in care. 

The noticeably furious Igboho in the sound discussion said: 

"It is a direct result of the circumstance of things, I am a man, I'm a 1,000,000 man, I vow to God. In any event, when there is no man anyplace, I'm as yet that tough man to deal with 

"I can be acting ignorant with everybody except the day I'll show my shadings, they will not have the option to contain me. The day I transformed it for them, I them choice that they ought to either kill me or change the cell that I am, and they did in light of the fact that they I transformed it for themselves and they realized that I implied what I said. 

"My excursion in life is among me and my God, I have acknowledged my destiny where I'm as of now. I'm not terrified of anything once more, aside from my God. Regardless of whether brought under the steady gaze of the Judge, I'll reveal to him I'm not terrified of him aside from God. He can do anything to me. 

"Regardless of whether it's Nigeria they need to take me to, I'm not apprehensive. Essentially Nnamdi Kanu is there, we are both battling for a similar reason. Assuming they need to return me to Nigeria, then, at that point no issue. 

"I have been winning my cases in Nigeria even (Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar) Malami had to pursue some of them. 

"It got to a phase he guaranteed he didn't know about DSS (Department of State Services) assault on my home. He guaranteed he didn't send them. 

"It wasn't the force of the Beninese government that made me to be here, it was on the grounds that God needed it like that. What's more, I'm certain God will before long delivery me from jail regardless of whether all legal advisors say they are not prepared to guard me once more. 

"I'm not scared of anything or anyone once more. In case it's Nigeria, let them take me there. My dad was extremely amazing when he was alive, however he passed on. He and my mum were exceptionally poor. Be that as it may, take a gander at me today, I'm rich."