Ogun So-Safe catches a suspected cultist with a gun
The So-Safe Corps in Ogun State on Thursday apprehended a suspected cultist who was terrorizing the state.
A statement from So-Safe Corps spokesperson Moruf Yusuf quoted Corps Commander Soji Ganzallo as saying the suspect was arrested while responding to a distress call.
Residents had alerted the body to possible attacks by some men living in a flooded abandoned 20-room building at Ijeun Tuntun in Abeokuta, where the suspect occupied one of two rented rooms.
According to Ganzallo, the So-Safe team was able to “apprehend the kingpin, Mr. Akeem Yekinni, a 48-year-old man, who resides in the said building in Nawar-ud-Deen, Ijeun Tuntun.”< /p>
Ganzallo said the suspect, who declined to name other members of his team, had his room searched, saying "a local double-barreled pistol and an actual cartridge were found wrapped in a rag and kept in a travel bag.
He added that the cultist and the exhibits found in his room had been transferred to the Nigerian Police Anti-Cult Unit at Oke-Ijemo, for onward transfer to State Police Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
The So-Safe Corps in Ogun State on Thursday apprehended a suspected cultist who was terrorizing the state.
A statement from So-Safe Corps spokesperson Moruf Yusuf quoted Corps Commander Soji Ganzallo as saying the suspect was arrested while responding to a distress call.
Residents had alerted the body to possible attacks by some men living in a flooded abandoned 20-room building at Ijeun Tuntun in Abeokuta, where the suspect occupied one of two rented rooms.
According to Ganzallo, the So-Safe team was able to “apprehend the kingpin, Mr. Akeem Yekinni, a 48-year-old man, who resides in the said building in Nawar-ud-Deen, Ijeun Tuntun.”< /p>
Ganzallo said the suspect, who declined to name other members of his team, had his room searched, saying "a local double-barreled pistol and an actual cartridge were found wrapped in a rag and kept in a travel bag.
He added that the cultist and the exhibits found in his room had been transferred to the Nigerian Police Anti-Cult Unit at Oke-Ijemo, for onward transfer to State Police Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
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