A suspected cultist, Chinedu Obi, who threatened to invade a police station with his colleagues and kill officers who arrested him, has died.
Ogun police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said in a statement on Wednesday that the suspect died on July 20 at the General Hospital, Ota where he was receiving treatment after being shot in the leg.
Mr Obi had recently appeared in a viral video at the back of a police patrol van bleeding and threatening to return with his gang members to kill those behind his arrest.
The suspect was arrested on July 19 by policemen at Sango Ota Division for alleged malicious damage.
Obi was said to have run out of the statement room during interrogation, picked an axe and started smashing windscreens of vehicles parked inside the police station.
Mr Oyeyemi said Obi damaged 17 vehicles inside the station and pursued policemen with the axe before he was demobilised.
“He ran out of the interrogation room to where vehicles were parked and used the axe to destroy 17 vehicles. Afterwards, he started chasing the policemen with the aim of using the axe on anyone around,” Oyeyemi said.
The spokesman added that the officer who shot Obi acted in accordance with Force Order 237 since the suspect was armed with an axe and aggressive.
He denied claims that the police intentionally allowed the suspect to bleed to death, insisting that Obi died while receiving treatment at the hospital.
