In Ogun State, a suspected cultist accidentally shot himself while loading and removing a live round from a locally produced pistol.

The Amotekun Corps in the state said that Jinai shot himself in the arm on Sunday.

The Corps reported that the “pistol inadvertently exploded, resulting in catastrophic injuries on his left arm.”

Jinai Sunday and other accomplices, who are “members of the Aiye Cult group,” were meeting as usual in a bush near Kakanfo village in Obada-Owode, Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State when the crime occurred, according to CP David Akinremi (rtd), commander of the Ogun Amotekun Corps.

According to Akinremi, after the sound of a gunshot, the Amotekun Coordinator in Imeko-Afon, acting on credible intelligence, immediately swung into action and arrested the injured suspect and thereafter, one Adejare Kehinde.

The Amotekun boss disclosed that the said Adejare Kehinde was later revealed during interrogation “as an agent who procured locally made pistols for the gang from Republic of Benin.”

A member of the gang named Ogundele Elijah, (alias Ogun 07) who confessed to being an ex-convict, having served six months sentence in Ilaro Correctional Centre for cultism, was later arrested based on an earlier confession by the first two suspects.

Operatives of the Corps are on the trail of other members of the gang still at large.

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