Haruna Yusuff, a police sergeant has been arms of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team ( IRT), for selling a gun belonging to his colleague to a cultist in Kwara.
Yusuff, a traffic warden attached to Omi-Aran division in Irepodun local government area of Kwara, confessed t newsmen in Osogbo when he and six members of Aiye confraternity were paraded by the State Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode on Friday.
The suspected cultists were responsible for violent criminal attacks in Omu Aran and neighbouring communities in Kwara State have also been arrested.
Yusuff said he stole the riffle from a former Station Officer of Omu-Aran who was later dismissed over the missing gun.
The IRT operatives in Osun State were reportedly working to prevent an attack on the state by suspected cult members when one of the cult members was arrested.
“I stole the gun from my former Station Officer. I didn’t know what happened to me. I sold it for N47,000.”
His arrest led to the arrest of other members of his group and the eventual arrest of the serving policeman. , who sold arms to them for operation.
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