Varsity gardener and others are arrested for arms possession
Operatives of the So-Safe Corps have detained a 32-year-old gardener at a private institution in Abeokuta, Ogun State, and five other accomplices for alleged cultism and firearms possession in the state.
The So-Safe Corps has arrested a 32-year-old gardener of a private university in Abeokuta, Ogun State, and five other accomplices for alleged cultism and possession of ammunition in the state. The suspect was found in possession of four live ammunition while being searched at the access gate of the estate. The police have recovered three axes, five cutlasses, four scissors, one knife, one Islamic rosary and one spinner. The items have been transferred to the police Anti-Cultism Unit for further investigation and onward transfer.
The commander said Victor, who claimed to be working as a gardener at a private university in Abeokuta, confessed during a preliminary investigation that the ammunition was found on him while he was returning from the residence of his employer situated within the Obasanjo Hilltop.
The suspect, he said, listed four of his Aiye Confraternity friends, namely Isiaka Jimoh, 33; Oluwaseun Gabriel; Ojeka Samuel; and Adisa Rasheed; all of whom reside in Rounder, Abeokuta's Feyintolorun and Iyana Cele neighborhoods.
Ganzallo continued, "The perpetrator disclosed that Olumide Abdullah, alias Maintain, one of his supervisors in the cult group, asked him to get the ammunition.
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