Mr Hundeyin said that a suspected cultist, aged 22, was captured on CCTV on July 7, where he allegedly was involved in the killing of a rival cult member.
In the monthly Police Activity Report for July 2022, Mr Alabi said that out of the 300 suspects that were arrested.
Mr Hundeyin said that in all the border towns, persons coming in and going out were under serious surveillance.
The commercial motorcyclists popularly known as Okada riders made bonfires on the major road, disrupting human and vehicular movement.
The spokesman for the police in Lagos, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday.
The police said the allegation was “a cunningly-crafted work of fiction” to possibly cause “ethnic war amongst Nigerians.”
The armed hoodlums were repelled while attempting to cart away already-installed armored cables in the refinery.
