Sylvester Waterleon, a 17-year-old kid fleeing the state’s Anti-Cult Volunteer Corps (AVC) over the possible arrest, perished in a vehicle crash around the axis in Obiaruku Ukwani Local Government, Delta State.
Waterleon, who was on a motorcycle with a friend, was claimed to have died after his brakes failed and his bike smashed into a wall along the road while attempting to elude capture by the AVC attached to the Obiaruku police Division.
Waterleon and his friend were unconscious shortly after the accident, which occurred as the dead was returning from where he had gone to get narcotics, according to eyewitnesses, and rather than the AVC.rushing them to a local hospital, they transported them to the station to impose their arrest.
At the station, they stated that police efforts to resuscitate them were futile, with only one friend regaining consciousness but the Waterleon never waking up.
The Delta command’s Commissioner of Police, CP Wale Abass, has ordered the arrest of the anti-cult squad, which is being held at the police command in Asaba.
This happened just a year after the Command launched new AVC Kits, Identity Cards, and Patrons around the state.
The command’s goal is to work with sister security agencies, vigilantes, anti-cult volunteers, and other groups to address all types of security concerns across the state.
The anti-cult Volunteer Corps had performed crucial roles in cooperating with the Police to solve serious security concerns in communities across the state, highlighting the need for community policing.
The Corps was primarily a humanitarian service, and it lauded AVC’s efforts in combatting the threat of cultism in the state, emphasizing that the concept of community policing is about crime fighting because the police cannot do it alone.
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