Police in Anambra state on Wednesday, August 5, 2015, paraded 30 people arrested for various crimes ranging from car snatching, kidnapping, murder and cultism.

The Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Mr. Hassan Karma, said that the arrest of the criminals mostly from Obosi in Idemili Local Government Area of Anambra State was effected by a combined operation of Police, Army, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), who were “united in seeing that Anambra people sleep with two eyes closed”.

Karma praised the effort of the combined force and counseled other states to emulate the energy of the combined force for effective crime fighting.

Among those arrested were one man kidnapper, car snatching syndicates, a murderer, a gang that specializes in vandalizing telecommunication masts and 19 student cultists, mostly belong to Vikin from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka and Federal Polytechnic, Oko.

Among items recovered from the cultists were 10 locally made pistols, which police said were usually put to other uses than cultism initiation, 10 axes, 10 bags of Indian hemp, a drum, black caps, red candles and mobile phones believed to have been snatched from people.

Karma advised other students to learn from the experience of those caught and say no to cultism.