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Midim Atan, a local community in Akwa Ibom state, is still besieged by terror and criminality, three months after it gave an ultimatum to members of a suspected local cult group to lay down their arms, residents say.

The traditional council of the community in Essien Udim Local Government Area of the state, in a report to the state police commissioner said crime persists despite the two-week grace period given to members of the suspected cult group.