Mohammed Shosanya
Majority of mad people in the state are criminals using lunatic gears to deceive the public in order to gather information about the locations where they wanted to operate,Corps Commander of Ondo State command of South West Security Network (SWSN) otherwise known as Amotekun Corps, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye,has said.
Adeleye,who spoke while parading 26 criminals suspects at the headquarters of the formation at Alagbaka, Akure, Adeleye, also revealed how the officials of Amotekun Corps searched some lunatics in different communities in the state and found expensive phones on some of them.
According to him,two among the mad persons in the street who were searched and discovered to be pretenders, were arrested in Idanre and Igbara-Oke in Idanre and Ifedore Local Government Areas of the state.
He said: “These suspects have been constituting security risk and nuisance to our state. They were arrested within last one week.We have two cases and it’s becoming rampant, almost every week, where on searching these mad people, we found expensive phones on them.
“We found out that majority of them only pretend to be mad in order to gather information in the particular area where they intend to operate. We have two of them, one from Idanre and one from Igbara oke.
“If you notice an usual movement about so to say mad or lunatic people, let the security agencies know on time before they carry out their activities. It is actually dangerous to accost a mad man, anything could happen, thereafter. The best thing is to give us a timely information and we will contact relevant security organizations to assist in ensuring that they are brought to book.”
Speaking on other activities of the formation, the Corps Commander said: “Last week, we assisted the Federal Road Safety Corps in enforcing the abuse on registration number on vehicles and motorbikes.
“So, we are open to all agencies for such assistance. So, the Ministry of Women Affairs in the state is also collaborating with us on all these, especially if we have timely information.We also have a pathetic case of a kidnapper, their gang kidnapped and killed a victim who came from Ogun State.
“In the interest of collaboration, we contacted our Ogun State colleagues and we were able to find out the family of the victim and the suspect is here, we are set to transfer the suspect, because the first part of that crime actually took place in Ogun State. So, we are set to handover the suspect who had been on the wanted list of Ogun State police to the Police Command of Ogun State any moment from now.
“We have another syndicate of armed robbers that operates on the highways that were caught in the act. Some of them actually opened fire on our men on patrol while they were caught in the act of armed robbery. So, all of them talking 26 had been profiled and in conjunction with the office of the public prosecution will take them through the normal prosecution process.”
He assured people of the state that all security agencies in the state would not relent in their efforts in protecting life and property.