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A 28-year-old man, Wasiu Egbetunde, was arrested last Thursday by Amotekun Corps in Oyo State, after he allegedly invaded the shop of Madam Fatima Ahmed at Asuni area, along Isale Osi Road in Ibadan, and destroyed property worth over N3 million after taking Loud drug (a strain of cannabis). The incident, which reportedly started at about 11 p.m. on Wednesday, was eventually brought to a halt by Amotekun Corps at about 4 a.m. on Thursday when the man was subdued with a gunshot to his hand to immobilise him. Before this was done, efforts of Amotekun operatives to call him out of his hiding spot in the shop were futile as he allegedly injured them with the bottles he was throwing. Tribune Online learnt that the arrested drug addict had gone to Madam Ahmed’s shop to buy N100 worth of sachet water to subdue the drug effect when he suddenly went berserk, coiled himself round the elderly woman, before running inside the shop. From there, he was reported to have started bringing out filled bottles of malt and soft drinks from their cartons and started aiming them at people through the burglar-proof diving inner part of the shop from the outer part. In the process, many who made attempts to bring him out sustained injuries in different parts of their bodies. While one person had his ear sliced off, another person had a serious injury on his foot which broken pieces of thrown bottles. The arrested suspect, who admitted taking a Loud drug which affected him, however, said he was trying to hide himself from some area boys who attacked him, demanding money and other things. He told the Tribune Online that he held on to the shop owner to protect himself, with the thought that the attackers would leave him, adding that he had no choice but to use the bottles to prevent the attackers from killing him when he saw that the elderly woman could not help. When Tribune Online visited the scene, the second-in-command to the Amotekun Coordinator in Ibadan South West Local Government Areas, Mr Sikiru Apanpa, said it took efforts to subdue the suspect, as he was among those injured. ALSO READ TOP STORIES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
