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The Security Operatives called the So-Safe Corps has arrested a suspected cultist who has been terrorizing residents of Ogun State.
Mr Moruf Yusuf, the Corps spokesman revealed this in a statement issued on Thursday on behalf of the Corps Commander, Dr. Soji Ganzallo.
According to the statement, the suspect was arrested when the agency’s special team responded to a distress call of possible attacks from the men living in an abandoned flooded building of 20 rooms at Oke-Ijeun Tuntun in Abeokuta.
Ganzallo noted that the team was able to apprehend the kingpin, Mr Akeem Yekinni, a 48-year-old man, who resides at the said building at Nawar-ud-Deen, Ijeun Tuntun.
He said that the suspect refused to disclose the rest members of his team and their mode of operation.
Ganzallo further revealed that after a thorough search of the room where the suspect resides, a double-barrel locally made pistol and a live cartridge was found wrapped with a cloth and kept in a travelling bag.
The suspected cultist and the exhibits have been transferred to the Nigeria Police, Anti Cultism Unit, Oke-Ijemo, for onward transfer to the State Police Headquarters, Eleweran
for further investigation and likely prosecution.