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Cultism: Osun Police Arrest Soldiers Who Attempted To Release Detained Cultists From Custody

The three soldiers who were alleged to have invaded a police post in Obelawo area along Ikirun road in Osogbo Tuesday night to free their colleague and cultists detained by the police have been arrested.
The soldiers, according to Prowling Eagles findings revealed that they actually went to the station to get their colleague and some suspected cultists kept in the custody released in an unruly behavior and they were arrested by the police.
Recall that Osun Defender had yesterday reported that three soldiers stormed a police to free their colleague detained by policemen. Osun Defender gathered that the heavily tamed solider fired gunshots in the air upon their arrival at the station.
Security report has it that, the Tactical Unit of Anti-Cultism set up by the state Commissioner of Police, CP Olawale Olokode through distress call effect the arrest of the unruly behavior soldiers.
Findings however, revealed that the soldiers-policemen face-off was as a result of an attempt by one soldier now in detention to get one of the suspected cultists that were arrested on bail in an unruly manner and he was rebuffed by the police.
The soldier unknown to the policemen had called on his colleagues who came to the station to forcefully release their colleague and cultists, but they were overpowered, arrested and taken to the State CID.
Osun Police spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola Confirmed the incident, she said that the soldiers came & behaved themselves in unruly manner, but were not successful.
Three of the soldiers have been arrested and investigation is ongoing at the SCID.

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