Parents Beware! 4 Underage Girls, 9 Teenage Boys Nabbed During Cult Initiation (Photos)

Four underage girls, whose ages range between 10 and 13 and nine teenage suspected cultists have been nabbed by the Ogun state police early this week.

According to Dailypost, the girls were all primary six school leavers and the nine male members were in their early teens; only their leader Tunde Adio, is 19 years of age.

As at the time of their arrest, all the suspects, whose names were not disclosed by the police were residents of Mosunmore Village near Kobape in Abeokuta, the state capital.

The suspects were nabbed after Baale (Chief) of the community alerted the police, sequel to the alarm raised by one of the suspected girl’s mother.

Acting on the information, detectives attached to Owode-Egba Police Divisional Headquarters, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Shehu Alao, swung into action and succeeded in smoking them out of their camp during initiation of another set of girls.

Narrating the worrisome incident, Police Commissioner, Ahmed Iliyasu, told reporters that

”A woman raised alarm to the Baale of Mosunmore village near Kobape, here in Abeokuta, to the effect that her daughter went out late a day previous.

Apparently disturbed by the said outing, the woman pestered her daughter who later confessed that she was initiated into a cult group, a development the woman found difficult to conceal to herself and alerted the community head who, in turn called in my men.

Consequently, officers of Owode-Egba Division stormed the area and successfully apprehended the 13 youngsters in the process of initiating yet another set of underaged girls.

The girls, all primary six school leavers, confessed to being lured into the group by the boys.”

Speaking with journalists, the leader of the group known as “Penalty Guys” revealed how he was initiated by one Tosin, also a resident of the community in January, 2017.

He added that they came about their own group’s name during the last Easter celebration when his third-in-command, 13-year-old Adewale Raphael’s church was organizing a picnic.

”We decided to do customized vests, with the inscription ‘Penalty Guys’. This was what attracted the girls and they agreed to be initiated,” Adio said.

CP Iliyasu has however, ordered that the suspects be transferred to the Anti-Kidnapping and Cultism Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for further investigation and prosecution.

We need to be sensitive as parents to what our children do and the kind of friends they keep. Consequently, when we notice they are on the wrong path, we should do everything to steer them back to the right path.

Photo credit: Daily Post