Security

D.P.O Allegedly Shoots Amotekun Corps Personnel

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Two personnel of Amotekun have been allegedly detained and another one shot by the divisional police officer in Ile Igbon, Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo State.

According to the information gathered, the Amotekun officers Olatunji Mayowa and Jenyo Isiaka had arrested an herdsman that was alleged to have set a farmland ablaze.

 The report also indicated that the D.P.O. Adepoju Ayodeji, on hearing the story, ordered the arrest and detention of the Amotekun officers.

The report added that seven Amotekun officials went  to the Ile- Igbon Division, to effect the release of their two members that were detained.

 And as the leader of the Amotekun was discussing with the police station guard, the D.P.O, allegedly rushed out, snatched an AK 47 Rifle from an officer standing by, and shot at the Amotekun Corps personnel.

Job Adewale was allegedly hit at close range on the right leg, while the detained officers Olatunji Mayowa and Jenyo Isiaka and the complainant were still in the Police Cell in Ile- Igbon Division.

 Reacting to the incident the Oyo State Police Public Relation Officer, Olugbenga Fadeyi said the DPO shot in defence

Reacting, the Amotekun commandant in Oyo State, Olayinka Olayanju, confirmed the incident.

Mr. Olayanju said the injured Amotekun personnel was presently receiving treatment at Ogbomoso Teaching Hospital.

Abisola Oluremi

Security

Seven Transport Workers Kidnapped Along Ilesha/Akure Express

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Four Transport Union Workers have been kidnapped at Iwaraja junction along Ilesha/Akure expressway in Oriade Local Government Area, Osun State on Monday night.

Radio Nigeria gathered that seven transport workers were travelling from Osun state to Akure and they were all kidnapped by suspected armed herdsmen.

It was gathered that the kidnappers later freed three of the abductees, a male and two female with an instruction that they should go and source ransom to free the remaining four victims.

A security source said security operatives including Odua People Congress (OPC), Amotekun corps and other security agencies are combing the forest around the Iwaraja junction where the abduction took place to rescue the four remaining victims.

The Police Public Relations officer for Osun State Command did not pick her number for confirmation.

When the Osun State Coordinator of OPC, Prince Deji Aladeshawe was contacted, he confirmed the kidnap.

Also, the Corps Commander of Osun Amotekun, General Bashir Adewinmbi rtd. confirmed the kidnap of the transport workers.

He said efforts are ongoing to ensure that they are released.

Adenitan Akionla

Security

We have deployed more security personnel to kidnapping/banditry hotspots – Governor Makinde

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In a bid to restore lasting peace to troubled areas, Oyo State government has come up with a security strategy including deployment of additional Operatives of the Amotekun Corps to the affected zone.

Governor Seyi Makinde on his official Facebook page stated that government has resolved to redeploy 200 members of the Oyo State Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed “Amotekun” to kidnapping/banditry hotspots in the state, especially in the Ibarapa and Oke-Ogun zones. 

According to Governor Makinde, the operatives would launch missions to rid the forests of criminals and present daily reports of the activities him in the short run and periodic reports in the long run.

He said government would continue dialogue with communities pointing out that town hall meetings would be held within few weeks to bring together residents and security agencies to talk about any issues of immediate concern and resolve them through dialogue and more effective community policing.

The governor equally said his government would continue to enforce the Oyo State Open Rearing and Grazing Regulation Law, 2019. 

He added that his administration would proceed with the documentation of foreigners, especially those who are working in mines at ensuring that only foreigners who have legitimate interests in Oyo State remained within the territory.

Governor Makinde thanked residents of Oyo State who complied with the directive to remain peaceful, and call on all residents to stay vigilant and always contact the security agencies empowered by law to deal with security issues. 

“Collaboration with Federal Security Agencies”

Our administration will continue to support the police and other federal security agencies posted to the state in the discharge of their duties”.  

“We are aware that some farmers have been killed and/or lost their livelihoods to criminal trespass and damage by pastoralists. And so, the State Executive Council is considering the possibility of compensation payments to families of victims or victims of this criminality who can prove their claims”.

“We have started the process of prosecuting all suspects arrested for criminal activities in Ibarapa and the Oke-Ogun zones of the state in connection with the ongoing tensions in the area”.

Iyabo Adebisi

Crime

Oyo Police Arrests 47 Armed Men In Igangan

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Oyo State Police Command have confirmed the arrest of forty-seven armed men in Igangan area of the state.

The suspects were arrested by men of the State Joint Anti-Crime Security Patrol team code-named “Operation Burst”.

The suspected hoodlums who were caught with guns and other dangerous weapons were allegedly on a reprisal attack mission to the area.

They were said to be arrested in a convoy of buses.

The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Olugbenga Fadeyi, said the arrested hoodlums claimed that they were trailing some kidnappers who were about to collect ransom from relations of a kidnapped victim.

He added that investigation has begun while the suspects have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Iyaganku, Ibadan.

“Though, it was alleged that the Fulani men claimed they were trailing some kidnappers who were about to collect ransom from relations of a kidnapped victim.”

According to unconfirmed sources, the armed Fulani men were allegedly invited by their kinsmen to strike in the area following the raid carried out by the men of the Oyo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun in the axis on Saturday.

Abisola Oluremi

Security

Allegation against Amotekun is being investigated – Gov. Makinde

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Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State says his government is already investigating the alleged highhandedness of the Amotekun Corps in the state.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, states that Governor Makinde made this known on his Twitter handle while speaking on the recent occurrence in Tapa Town in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of the state.

The incident involved some youths and corps of the Oyo Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun.

Governor Makinde noted that the issues would be addressed squarely in the interest of the security and well -being of residents of the state.

He reassured the residents of the state that the administration is doing everything it could to address security challenges in the state.

The governor, who added that Amotekun was introduced to check insecurity in the state, noted that the government would not sit back and watch any harassment or intimidation of any member of the public or any security agent.

Iyabo Adebisi

News

None of our men was involved in Born Photo fracas – Amotekun Corps

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The newly inaugurated Oyo State Security Network, codenamed “Amotekun Corps” has dismissed the report going round that a member of the corps opened gunfire on some residents of Ibadan, killing two and injuring many.


The corps Public Relations Officer, Mrs Ayolola Adedoja who stated this in an interview with Radio Nigeria said the perpetrator was not a member of Amotekun.

Mrs Adedoja confirmed that there was a crisis around Born Photo and Isale Osi area, of Ibadan involving men of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and some hoodlums.

According to her, the operatives of Amotekun Corps were only invited to enforce peace within the said area.

Radio Nigeria gathered that two persons were shot dead during the fracas.


Abisola Oluremi

Security

Ondo Amotekun Corps Displays Score Card as Operation Flags off

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Amotekun corps has flagged off operation clean up in Ondo State.

The Amotekun Corps Commander, Chief Adetunji Adeleye revealed this to newsmen in Akure, the state capital.

Chief Adeleye said operation clean up was targeted at sanitizing the state of suspected criminals and their hideouts across the state.

Commander Adetunji explained that Amotekun Corps had in less than twenty four hours of the new operation arrested fifteen suspects in connection with various offences

He declared that some of the suspects were either arrested during their nefarious activities or at their midnight meeting in the forest

Chief Adetunji also expressed the Corps readiness to transmit twenty-three persons including suspects of the recent kidnapping cases to the sister security agents to undergo various levels of interrogations

The Ondo Amotekun Corps Commander assured all residents of the state of crime free yuletide, noting that the men of the corps had put up a number of measures to nip crime in the bud, and rounded up some cows over destruction of farmlands

Chief Adetunji added that four kidnapped victims had been rescued from their abductors, reaffirming that the search for other suspected criminals within the nooks and crannies of the state was in progress.

Olorunferanmi Odofin

Crime

Osun Govt. Hands over Recovered Loots to Owners

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Osun State Government has begun to hand over recovered public and private loots to their respective owners.

Speaking with journalists, Secretary to the Committee on Loot Recovery,  Mr Samson Owoyokun revealed that government had earlier carried out enumeration in collaboration with the Police to officially itemize property lost by individuals in order to prevent wrongfully claim of ownership.

Mr Owoyokun informed the media that the house-to-house search which had commenced in some areas in the state would be based on an intelligence report from the JTF and Amotekun corps.

Some of the affected people who said many of their items were yet to be recovered expressed hope that more items would be recovered.

Our correspondent reports that all the recovered items are displayed in the open for easy identification by owners.

Wasiu Ajadosu

Security

Amotekun Corps: NULGE Expresses Support for Southwest Governors

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The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), has expressed support for the Southwest Governors over the take-off of Amotekun Corps to tackle insecurity in the geopolitical zone.

This is just as the union disowned its retired Deputy National Secretary, Comrade Rasaki Lawal over its alleged activities to create unnecessary leadership crisis.

This formed part of the decisions reached at the meeting of the Southwest leaders of NULGE held in Akure, the Ondo State capital and attended by all the six State Presidents in the zone.

In a Communiqué signed by the leaders, the zone explained that despite the hands of brotherhood extended to Rasaq Lawal, he never rescinded on his anti-union actions of allegedly creating rancour within the rank and file of NULGE throughout the country in general and the Southwest zone in particular.

The Southwest leaders therefore, enjoined all NULGE members, state government, agencies, parastatals and law enforcement agencies to disregard any publication and memos from him or his so called illegal caretaker committee.

The Southwest Zone leaders of the union pledged their unalloyed support and corporation to the leadership under the National President, Comrade Ibrahim Kahleel.

PR/ Leke Adegbite

Security

Ondo Graduates Pioneer Officers Of Amotekun Corps

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Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has appealed to the National Assembly to support the timely formation of community policing to end incessant crisis in the country.

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu made the appeal at the passing out ceremony for the pioneer officers of Security Network Agency, Amotekun Corps in Ondo State.

Governor Akeredolu who maintained that community policing had better understanding of their terrains and languages, said Amotekun Corps was formed to compliment the efforts of the conventional security outfits in the state.

Governor Akeredolu solicited the support of all and sundry especially the traditional rulers to achieve a crime-free society.

Also speaking, the Amotekun Corps Commander, Chief Ade Adeleye who retired as retired NSCDC Deputy Commandant General said the establishment of the corps was informed by daily increase of kidnapping, robbery and killing in the state.

Chief Adeleye who described objectives of the agency as security collaboration to assist the conventional security outfits within the South-West states maintained that the pioneer cadets had undergone prerequisite trainings for the task ahead to nip crime in the bud.

The Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi and the Olugbo of Ugbo, Oba Fredrick Akinrutan who recognized government’s struggle to get the Amotekun in place expressed confidence that the prevailing insecurities in the state would be a thing of the past.

Equipment presented to the corps at the passing out ceremony which was well attended by security heads, religious leaders and traditional rulers as well as hunters, included vehicles, motorcycles, security equipment and dogs.

Olorunferanmi Odofin

Crime

Amotekun Corps Arrests 42 Cows in Akure as Herders Flee

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The Ondo State Security Network Agency codenamed “Amotekun Corps” has arrested 42 cows for destroying farmlands around Alagbaka extension in Akure, the state capital.

Briefing journalists, the Ondo State Commander, Amotekun Corps, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, explained that the cows were arrested after series of complaints by owners of the farms in the axis.

According to him, over eight separate farmlands with crops such as maize and cassava were completely destroyed by the herdsmen who usually graze their cows around the affected area.

The Corps Commander noted that the herders who were heavily armed chased away the farm owners who later contacted the Amotekun Corps.

Chief Adeleye also revealed that when the joint security network including Agro-Rangers of the NSCDC got to the scene, the herders again attempted to attack them but they were overpowered by the security operatives, leading to the arrest of the cows while the herders however took to their heels.

The Corps Commander who advised farmers to always alert the Corps whenever they see cows destroying their crops added that the cow owners would not only pay for the crops destroyed but would be equally prosecuted.

The affected farmers, Loveday Job and Olawale Aluko, who said the heavily armed herders would have killed them if they had not taken to their heels added that the herders had consistently grazed their farms despite several complaints to security agencies without effect.

Olorunferanmi Odofin

Politics

ODHA Passes Amotekun Corps Bill into Law

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The Ondo State House of Assembly, ODHA has passed a bill for the establishment of State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps into law.

The lawmakers at a plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mr Bamidele Oleyelogun gave the nod after considering recommendations of the House Committee on Security.

The Chairman, House Committee on Security, Mr Ololade Gbegudu while reeling out the recommendations noted that it put into consideration submissions from the public hearing.

The Speaker, Mr Oleyelogun at putting the matter into voice votes noted that the law was made to provide assistance and give adequate security to lives and property in the state.

The house also referred the request from the riverine areas of the state on the invasion of the area by men of Nigeria Navy to the House Committee on Security to proper attention.

Olumide Abudu