Crime

An herdsman alleged to have been terrorizing farmers at Ibarapa area of Oyo State, Iskilu Wakilu has been arrested by some Members of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC.

According to a community leader and secretary to the Farmers Association, Ibarapa Chapter, Mr Taiwo Adeagbo, Wakilu was arrested along with four of his children at Kajola Town.

Mr Adeagbo said the suspects were arrested on Sunday morning barely a week after the Gani Adams led group arrested Wakilu’s deputy and some other members of his gang.

Radio Nigeria gathered that the suspects were taken to Ayete for further interrogation.

Abisola Oluremi

Security

Oyo State government has urged youths in the state to desist from violence and restiveness.

A statement by the Special Assistant on Print Media to the governor, Mr Moses Alao indicates that the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Mr Bayo Lawal gave the admonition while speaking with journalists after a stakeholders’ security meeting held at the Ibadan North-East Local Government.

The commissioner noted that the Governor Seyi Makinde-led administration remained committed to putting in place policies that would bring about a new lease of life to the state’s teeming youth population.

He said the governor was worried about the gang wars and hoodlums crisis in some parts of Ibadan, noting that he ordered that the meeting be held to determine the immediate and remote causes of the crisis and come up with lasting solutions.

According to the commissioner, hard drugs have been fingered as the major cause of the restiveness, even as he warned parents to rein in their wards by playing their roles properly in their lives.

The stakeholder security meeting which was organized sequel to security breaches by hoodlums and violent gangs in some parts of Ibadan, the state capital, was attended by critical stakeholders in the local government, Balogun of Ibadanland, High Chief Owolabi Olakulehin; Chief Lateef Oyelade, Mogajis, local security outfits such as the Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC) and Asoludero Guards and heads of security agencies, among others.

Iyabo Adebisi

Crime

An 18-year-old boy, Toheeb Tijani was on Sunday afternoon caught by a member of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress, OPC, while trying to loot a shop at Salvation Army Area in Ibadan.

Tijani who claimed to hails from Popo area of Ibadan said he was scavenging around a shop already burgled adding that his friends led him to the area only to scavenge for waste metals.

Narrating how the arrest went down to Radio Nigeria, the OPC member, Mr Wasiu Ayeka said the suspect with four others had succeeded in burgling an electronic shop when he arrived the scene after a tip off.

Mr Ayeka who said he was assigned to monitor activities in the area said the four robbers engaged him in tough fight but succeeded in arresting Toheeb Tijani who was one of them.

Mr Ayeka who said his success followed training and skills acquired in security and crime fighting said the four robbers would have assassinated him but for his tactics he adopted to arrest toheeb whom he said was the youngest of the four.

He said Toheeb would be taken to their branch office for further interrogation on the whereabouts of the remaining suspects that absconded.

As the time of filing this report, Radio Nigeria observed that the shop owner was not aware of the development while others were trying to put a call through to him.

Rotimi Famakin