By Tunde Sholanke
About 80 suspects have been arrested by Ondo State Security Network otherwise known as Amotekun Corps for various crimes in the last three weeks.
Among the suspects,thirty-two have been arraigned for prosecution after investigation into their cases were concluded.
Speaking at the headquarters of the formation at Alagbaka on Sunday,the Commander, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye disclosed that herders who destroyed the 10 hectares of cassava farm of the immediate former Vice Chairman (Southwest) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Eddy Olafeso have been arrested.
He disclosed that the culprits fled to the neighbouring Ekiti State after destroying the cassava farm where they were apprehended.
A syndicate specializing in snatching of tricycle, popularly known as Keke Marwa, has been bursted.
A trycycle snatched by the syndicate and taken to Lagos State state was successfully tracked to the location where it was kept through the communication device procured by the state government.
The Corps Commander said: “In the last three weeks, 80 criminals were arrested. In the last one week, about 32 were taken to court for prosecution. Investigations are going on in most of these ones.
“One of them at the end of the day were found to be victims of circumstances, like those that came out without means of identification at odd hours and are found where they werere not supposed to be. Those ones, upon proper interrogation, were released to go, some were released on bail.
“But what we have here is about 36 men and women engaged in various criminal activities ranging from murder, to anti-grazing. Stealing of motorcycles, grinding machine, stealing of Keke napep, stealing of various houss household equipment, including generator, and armed robbery.
“The signal we are sending is that Ondo State a place where you can’t thrive as a criminal, the criminals should better leave Ondo State, not only within the town, but within the forest. Some of these criminals were arrested right inside the forest.
“Again, the anti-open grazing law is in force in Ondo State where we discouraged the use of underaged for grazing, especially when they engage in destruction of farm products.
“We arrested some of those that engaged in the destruction of the farm of one of the principal officers of PDP that went viral. We caught them and we brought them to back.There are four of them that were involved.
“We have got the owners of the farmland, we had equally allowed them to meet with the owners of the cows that destroyed the farmland and I think they are talking.
“But regardless of what they do, they had contravened the anti-open grazing law, so they must fulfill the righteousness by going through the normal judicial system.Majority of these ones that we are parading today, having concluded the investigations, some of them will be going to court, early in the week next week.”.
