Rivers State Police Command has said its operatives arrested a 31-year-old man, identified as Fred Monday, who posed as a police inspector to lead armed robbery operations in the state.

Parading Monday and other suspects, who were arrested for various offences in the state, the police commissioner, Olatunji Disu, said Monday’s activities were exposed when he was arrested alongside five suspected cultists during a cult initiation activity in Luegbo Community, Khana Local Government Area.

Disu said the fake inspector, donning police camouflage and armed with an AK-47 rifle, ten magazines and twenty-nine rounds of live ammunition, was taken into custody on August 9, 2024.

The CP explained that the kingpin confessed to having purchased the rifle and ammunition from an accomplice, identified as Goodluck aka Boy-J, in 2021.

Disu revealed that the five cultists arrested alongside Monday, all students of Ken Saro Wiwa Polytechnic, have been charged and are currently in a correctional centre.

He said: “Operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Rivers State Police Command responded to an intelligence report of a criminal operation in Luegbo Community in Khana Local Government Area.

“On arriving at the scene, the Police met with an ongoing gruesome Cult initiation process. Five suspects, later found to be students of the Ken Saro Wiwa Polytechnic, were arrested. “