The directorate of the State Security Service (DSS) in Kwara State yesterday paraded seven students of one of the Colleges of Education in the state over alleged abduction, rape, cultism, and for being in possession of fake currency notes.
The suspects who were paraded before journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital were Abdulrasak Abubakar, Musa Sikirullahi, Kamaldeen Isiaka, Olanrewaju Lawal, Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Tunde Yusuf and Abdularaham Jimoh.
The DSS director in the state, Williams Ologba, told journalists shortly before parading the suspects that items recovered from them were cult masks, charms, locally made pistol, three cutlasses of different sizes and N72, 000 fake currency notes in N500 denominations.
Ologba, who said there was a resurgence of cult activities in the state, added that items displayed were recovered from the suspects during the raid of their hideouts.
He said two of the suspects allegedly raped one of their female colleagues, adding that the culprits who were arrested, subsequently, named other members involved in the crime.
The DSS director, who said investigations, had revealed that cult members have declared every July as their month of cult activities, appealed to members of the public to expose suspected cult members in their communities as part of measures to keep them out of the society.
He said: “It has become necessary to invite you because of the recent development in the state. Not too long ago we had incident of cult activities where two cult members were killed and one of them was beheaded. We were made to understand that the beheading was to hide the identity of the victim. The state government had taken resolute measures to check further occurrence.