Ondo: Amotekun Nab Suspected Killers Of First Class Monarch |The Source

By Ayodele Oni

Miffed by criticisms that trailed its ineffectiveness, the Amotekun Corps in Ondo State has woken up. The security outfit has arrested some suspected killers of the traditional ruler of Ifon in Ose Local  Government , Oba Isreal Adeusi, the Olufon of Ifon.

Those arrested, whose identities are still being kept in secret, were picked up in forests around the vicinity where the incident occurred last Thursday.

The First  Class Monarch was returning from a meeting of the State’s Council of Obas when he was shot and killed  by unknown gunmen.

Commander of the Ondo Security Network Agency, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, also,  disclosed that four kidnapped victims were rescued during the pursuit of Oba Adeusi killers.

Adeleye said surveillance has been mounted in the bushes around the state and at the farm of Chief Olu Falae to prevent further attack on the farm by suspected herdsmen.

The Ondo Amotekun boss said the “Operation Clean Up” launched on Tuesday led to the arrest of over 20 suspects from various black spots in Akure and environs.

According to him, the Operation Clean Up was meant to take the war to the criminals in their various hide outs in the city or the forest.

“In the past few weeks, cases of kidnappings, armed robbery increased in Ondo state and men of the Amotekun Corps went into action in collaboration with other security agencies.

“We observed a downward trend after the ban of okada at night so we had to change tactics. That was why we launched the Operation Clean Up which is intense patrol across the nook and cranny of Akure and other parts of the state.

“The idea is to take the war to the kidnappers, criminals or wherever they are hiding and we have recorded huge success. Amotekun operates in the bush, forest, water and anywhere.”

The security Chief also revealed that  some cows were arrested while destroying  farms and the herders fled.

He said the cows would not be released until the owners reached amicable agreement with the farmers whose crops were destroyed.