— Parades 7 for human trafficking, other crime

— Deploys 700 personnel for Easter festivity

By Dayo Johnson, Akure

The Ondo state security outfit codenamed Amotekun, has dismissed three of it’s personnel for professional misconduct.

Addressing newsmen in Akure, the state capital, the Amotekun state commander, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, said that the dismissed personnel have gone through the normal process of corps marshal and had been dismissed.

Adeleye said that ” we want to inform the public that we have three of the Amotekun personnel that had gone through the normal process of corps marshal and had been dismissed for professional misconduct.

” We will ensure adequate punishments even after their dismissal. “The penalty of what they did is to dismiss them and we have dismissed them accordingly.

Speaking on the seven suspected criminals paraded, Chief Adeleye, ” We recovered a vehicle which was attacked by armed bandits, and the resident of a particular community around Akure town raised the alarm.

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” Within few minutes of the alarm, we were able to moved and on getting there, while trying to rescue the victim, the armed robbers who had already taken over the vehicle drove off and we were able to retrieved the vehicle. Efforts are on to apprehend the robbers.

The commander said that some electronics stolen from the residents were recovered.

“And this is to reconfirm that response to distress calls is actually working for us in order to reduce crime to minimum.

” Again, the Easter festive is around the corner and end of fasting and we know that people will travel around during the holidays.

” We will be deploying 700 officers across the 18 local government areas of Ondo state to guarantee safety of lives and properties in the state.

“To commuters, we advise you to reduce travelling late in the night, and early in the morning.

“However, we will commence our 24-hours patrol from the end of this week to ensure safety.

“Out of the seven suspects we are parading, we have three that were arrested for human trafficking cases and we have four others that were arrested for house breaking and we were able to retrieved all the items stolen from their operation, which would be handover to the rightful owners.

Adeleye said ” We want to encourage the good people of Ondo state to give us timely information to work for them.

Vanguard Newspaper