Amotekun Nabs 51 Suspected Criminals In Ondo

The Ondo State Security Network, codenamed Amotekun, paraded nary less than 51 suspected criminals successful the authorities for assorted offences connected Friday.

Among those paraded were 1 of the armourers of kidnappers and suspected kidnappers who person been terrorising antithetic parts of the state.

Parading the suspects astatine the bid office successful Akure, the authorities capital, the commandant of the Corps, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye, informed that men of the bid arrested the suspected criminals successful the state’s forests for assorted offences.

Adeleye hinted that 37 suspected criminals were arrested for breaking the instrumentality and order, six for kidnapping and 1 for maltreatment and rape.

While informing that determination had been a simplification successful transgression and criminality successful the state, the corps commandant disclosed that arsenic a effect of the activities of the Amotekun Rangers successful the forest, the bid has been capable to dismantle a kidnapping syndicate terrorising the state.

Adeleye said the suspected armourer confessed to having participated successful 5 large kidnap operations wrong the state.

“We person a 21-year-old Lugge, a 40-year-old Andrew, a 30-year-old Eze Chinedu, and Ime, Yahaya and their section collaborator, Seun –  each suspected kidnappers. On quality trafficking, we person 1 Ibrahim, 42, and 1 Agu Joseph, who is simply a jailbird that really escaped from the Okitipupa custodian centre to perpetrate different crime, wherever Amotekun operatives picked him up.

“On attempted robbery, we person Kehinde, 30; Folarin, 36, and their collaborators, Aliu and Lukman, 28 and 25 years, respectively. As portion of that robbery gang, we besides person Mada, 25.

“On the rape victim, we person Amos Kingsley, 29, and connected the anti-open grazing usurpation successful Akure North and Pelebe, Akure area, we were capable to apprehension Liman and Abubakar.

“On an anti-open grazing violation, we arrested Isa, 50. We person 1 Sadiq, 27, who was granted administrative bail successful the tribunal wherever the prosecution was expected to person been going on.

“He ran distant from the state; we were capable to acceptable up trackers to bring him back, and we person Sani, Joshua and Pelumi, who specialise successful breaking into people’s houses,” helium said.