The Rivers State Police Command has arrested five suspected cultists for allegedly beating a 34-year-old man, Rowland Horsfall, to death after accusing him of generating a fake alert for hard drugs he purchased from them. The suspects, members of the dreaded Iceland cult group, collected ransom from the victim’s mother despite having already killed him.
According to the police spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko, the suspects were arrested after the victim’s mother became suspicious and alerted the police. The suspects confessed to the crime, revealing that they had dumped the victim’s remains along Queens/Kings Bakery, Abuloma Road, Port Harcourt.
The arrested suspects include Endurance Friday Thompson, Boma Otonye, David Link Ishaku, Moses Nsikak Benjamin, and Emmanuel Aniete. The police have recovered the victim’s remains and deposited them at a morgue. The command has intensified its search for other fleeing suspects to bring them to justice.
The police warned young people to be cautious of the company they keep and the places they visit to avoid falling prey to criminal elements.
