Man detained for shooting self!

Wonders would never seize,only in 9ja can such things happen. A guy was detained by police for  accidentally shooting himself,shouldn't the reason for his arrest be possession of fire arms?
According to the nations newspaper..... 20-year-old security man, Meshack Samuel, has
been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State
Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for shooting
himself.
The police described the incident as “robbers’
accidental discharge.”
Samuel is being detained for alleged illegal
possession of fire arm.
His action led to the arrest of his friends – Uja
Emmanuel, 32 from Otukpo, Benue State and
Adams Ameh Idoko, 30, from Igbokoto also in
Benue State – in Awoyaya Street, Ibeju-Lekki,
Lagos.
According to the command’s spokesperson, Ken
Nwosu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP),
the suspects were arrested following complaints
by people, who alerted them on hearing the
sound of gunshot.
Samuel told reporters that he ran into trouble
when he asked a friend to help get a gun for
protection from hoodlums and cult boys.
He said: “After relocating from Abuja to Lagos, I
got a job as a security man from Threeshat
Guard Security Company; the company posted me
to Coscharis Motors on a monthly salary of N18,
500.
“My trouble started when I told my friend Adams
that I needed a gun to protect myself from the
menace of the hoodlums and cult boys in
Awoyaya. He brought one Double Barrel gun and
said he would sell it for N20, 000 and I told him
that I don’t have such amount of money. He later
promised to exchange it with my laptop which
cost more than the gun.
“When he brought the gun, I tried to test it to
know whether it was working, I just heard gbosa
and my right hand started bleeding profusely. I
knew I have shot myself.
Adams took me to General Hospital and told the
doctor that I was shot by some hoodlums in
Awoyaya who he claimed to be cult boys. The
doctor told us to bring a police report before he
could treat me. Adams rushed to Elemoro Police
Station.
“Surprisingly, as we entered the police station, we
saw one of our neighbours there who went to
report us. He pointed at us and told police ‘that
is the man, see his bullet wound.’ Police quickly
arrested us and transferred us to SARS.
“When the SARS asked me what I intended to do
with a gun, I told them that I wanted to defend
myself from cult boys. Thereafter, they searched
Adams’ house and recovered the gun with two
kitchen knives. There, SARS officers arrested
Emmanuel.”
Emmanuel, who also works as a security man
guarding MTN Mast, said he picked the gun from
bush.
“I later dropped it but Adams said he would take
it. When I heard that they were arrested, I went to
police as a good friend to know why they were
arrested. There, Adams told the police that I was
the one who gave him the gun which I accepted,”
he said.
Adams said he was arrested for trying to help a
friend.
“I am a security man opposite Mayfair at
Awoyaya area. Police arrested me because I had
a gun I wanted to sell to solve my family
problem. I did not rob with the gun. I needed
money desperately and it is only the gun that has
value to give me the change (N20, 000) I
desperately needed. I am not an armed robber but
a business man trying to help a friend,” he said.

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