By Eben Enasco Kingsley Benin City

The Assistant Inspector General of  Police, AIG, Zone 5, Headquarters Benin  City, AIG Musa Daura,has described Cultism as the mother of kidnapping , armed robbery, drug addiction, with unlawful taking, seizing, imprisonment or carrying away of a person by force or fraud without  such persons consent.

He made the submission on the occasion of its stakeholders meeting held  at the Zonal Conference Hall in Benin City  with leaders of Hausa /Fulani Communities in Edo, Delta and Bayelsa States on the rising  wave of cattle rustling, armed Robbery, kidnapping and other security  Challenges in the zone.

AIG Daura hinted while addressing stakeholders that the spate of kidnapping  and other heinous crimes in the Zone have become very worrisome  and urgent steps need to be taken to stem the tide before it goes  viral.

“In recent time, Kidnapping, armed robbery, cattle rustling and other crimes  have taken toll and ever reached alarming dimension which if checks  and balances are not applied can result to catastrophe. I want to  reassure the government, good people of the zones including entire relevant  stakeholders that the Police will not rest on their Oars,”he said 

Responding,One of the participants Chief David Emahinro from Abraka Delta  State commended the AIG for introducing community policing adding  that, the Fulani rustlers have maimed, Raped their women and also  destroyed their farm produce.

Relatedly, while also responding to some of the allegations made by community  heads, the special assistant adviser  on Non-Indigen Affairs to  Delta State Governor, Alhaji Usman Abdulahi, said it was proper to harmonize  and live in Peace.

The Police Boss however urged all to report any suspicious person within  their neighbourhood to assist police concerning criminal activities.