Operatives of the Ondo State security outfit, codenamed Amotekun, have arrested 149 suspected criminal with weapons hidden inside a trucks, Vanguard has reported.
Parading the suspects in Akure, the state commander of Amotekun, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, said that many of the suspects have been profiled while while others are still being questioned.
Adeleye pointed out that the suspects were arrested from different black spots across the state.
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He told Newman that the suspects were inside trucks when they were arrested from three local government areas of the state.
“The arrest was made from the various parts of the country in trucks across three local government areas of the state.
“A couple of weeks ago, we started having very heavy influx of strange people within our forest reserve areas and within the Ondo State territory.
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“Majority of these people who claimed that they were coming into the state as hunters, were arrested around the black spots where we have robbery operations and kidnapping in the local governments where they were nabbed.
“They surprisingly and carefully concealed and kept their weapons, bags of Indian hemps and cutlasses under their vehicles and they claimed that they are coming from the various part of the country.
“The pertinent questions we are asking them, is that is “why are they hiding their guns”?
“If they are genuine hunters, why not come out openly, but one begins to wonder why they would come from the extreme parts of the country to hunt in a village, in a forest they have never been to before in Ondo state?”
