•••OVER 100 ABLE BODIED MEN HUDING UNDER COW IS INVASION – COMMANDER
Western Nigerian Security Network, Code-named Operation Amotekun has arrested 168 suspected invaders in Ondo State.
The Amotekun Corps, had intercepted 151 suspected invaders of northern extraction along the Akure/Ado-Ekiti Highway. the state capital on August 5, 2022.
Curiously, the latest batch of suspected concealed themselves and over 40 motorcycles under cows which were being conveyed into the state loaded in two trucks.
The State Commander of the Corps, Adetunji Adeleye, told journalists while parading the suspects that the operatives who were suspicious of their movement arrested them around Itaogbolu-Iju, Akure North Local Government Area of the state on Sunday.
He stated further that the operatives discovered during a search on the trucks that the suspected invaders hid themselves under vowed to avoid being seen.
According to him, the suspects claimed that they were coming from Kano and Jigawa states and had no special destination in mind.
He said that the attempt to smuggle in large number of able bodied men into the state without invitation and an address is an invasion.
He explained that the trucks were designed in such as way that it was difficult without a careful search to discover the men.
He said, the cows were kept on the upper floor while the middle had the motorcycles and the 168 people lying on the floor.
“On Sunday, our stop and search team saw these two trucks they told them that they were on their way to Ondo State with cows. After careful examination, we found out that they carefully concealed about 40 motorcycles with 168 people lying down beneath the motorcycles.
“The upper floor has cows, the middle has motorcycles wrapped and dismantled and on the lower floors, we have 168 people lying down, such that if you are not careful, you won’t observe it.
“So, we questioned where they were going and why they packed themselves and why they were avoiding people and they said they were coming to Ondo State.
“Upon interrogation, many of them do not have the address of where they are going, nobody invited them and we are becoming curious about these invasions.
“I call it invasion because you see over 100 able-bodied men concealing themselves under animals, it shows they are up to negative motives.
“After investigation and profiling, if it doesn’t find anything on them and as long as they don’t have anybody that is ready to take custody of them in Ondo state, the corps will send them back to their various states.
“We have commenced profiling but we want to warn citizens of the state to be wary of visitors because nobody knows how many of such invaders had managed to enter the system. We saw some of them with charms which we are yet to ascertain what the mission is.
“Those who own the motorcycles, they confessed that non of the motorbikes had papers and of course, they photocopied some papers but you can see one engine number in 30 motorcycles which clearly shows that they were forged documents.
“We will find out how they got the motorcycles and also find out their mission in Ondo State. If they don’t have any credible thing to do in the state, we will send them back,”
