•••Indigenes Stage Peaceful Protest On Security on Monday
Soji Ajibola, Ibadan
The combined security team of the Joint Security Task Force in Oyo State otherwise known as Operation Burst and Western Security Network code named Amotekun on Sunday stormed forests in Abaa, Surulere Local Government Area, Oyo in search of the killers of the final year student of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, a hotelier and one other person.
The members of the community became apprehensive with the heavy presence of the combined security team on sunday.
Our correspondent gathered the security operation led to the arrest of some suspects with arms and ammunition recovered from them.
A hotel within the community which is suspected to be the base of the criminals was also said to have been destroyed.
The Network gathered that a makeshift shop by a tea vendors popularly known as “Mai tea” was used as an armoury by some of the criminals.
A source said that the security agents recovered some guns and bullets hidden in the place.
The Commandant of Amotekun Corps in Oyo State, Colonel Olayinka Adeyanju, when contacted told journalists that ” a clearance operation is going on in the area.”
Recall that gunmen had on July 28 abducted a hotelier, Mr Olugbenga Owolabi; a final year student of LAUTECH, Rachael Opadele and killed them after collecting N5million ransom.
The person who took the ransom to the kidnappers escaped with injuries but the okada rider who took him to the kidnappers hideout, Mr Idowu Ajagbe, was also killed by the hoodlums.
Meanwhile, a former Military Governor of Oyo State, Major General Oladayo Popoola; Justice Afolabi Adeniran and Dr Saka Balogun, will be leading other prominent indigenes of Ogbomoso as well as the youth of the town in a peaceful protest on insecurity in the town on Monday.
The President of Ogbomoso Community Youth Forum, Rev. Kayode Olaleye, said in a statement made available to journalists that the awareness rally was to sensitize the people on security situation and to be vigilant.
The statement read, “In view of the deteriorating security situation in Ogbomoso zone, as evident in recent waves of kidnapping for ransom and killing of victims, the Ogbomoso Consultative Council led by Major General Oladayo Popoola OFR (retd), Justice Afolabi Adeniran (retd) and Dr Saka Balogun in consultation with the elders of the community and in conjunctions with the youths (under the aegis of the Ogbomoso Community Youth Forum, will be holding a rally to create awareness on the fear-inducing phenomenon.”
