Operatives of South-West Security Network, Amotekun have arrested 28 suspected criminals including two who pretended to be mentally unstable in Ondo and Ogun states.
Twenty six of the suspects, including two who pretended to be mentally unstable were paraded by the Ondo State Commandant, Adetunji Adeleye, yesterday in Akure
He said the suspects constituted security risk and nuisance, adding that they were arrested in different parts of the state within one week.
Adeleye, who advised the public to be weary of impostors pretending to be mad persons, said expensive phones were among items recovered from one of the men at Igbara Oke in Ifedore LGA.
He said another suspect, who allegedly hacked his landlord to death in Idanre, started acting insane afterwards.
“We have two cases and it’s becoming rampant, almost every week, but on searching these mad people, we found expensive phones.
“And we found out that majority of them only pretended 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,” he said.
The commandant advised the public to inform security agencies if they noticed any unusual movement in or around their houses, environment.
“It is actually dangerous to accost a mad man, anything could happen, thereafter.
“The best thing is to give us timely information and we will contact relevant security organisations to assist in ensuring that they are brought to book.
“Also, the ministry of women affairs in the state is collaborating with us on all these, especially if we have timely information,”he added.
Adeleye said that a gang of kidnappers from Ogun state, who after collecting ransom kill their victims, were arrested with the support of the Amotekun corps in Ogun.
“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 Command to them any moment from now.
“We have another syndicate of armed robbers that operate 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 totalling 26 had been profiled and in conjunction with the office of the public prosecution will soon be arraigned in court,” he said.
The suspected kidnapper, Akinmola Oyekanmi, said he was also a farmer.
He said he successfully carried out two kidnappings but mistakenly shot the last victim.
In Ogun, the corps arrested two murder suspects, Akinyele Adebayo and Idosu Gbalo, for allegedly decapitating their victim, Umaru Aliyu, a herder.
Aliu alias Lagi was allegedly murdered on April 30, at Ijagure village along Sagada, Imeko-Afon Local Government, while he and one Umaru Takake were grazing their cattle in a nearby bush.
It was learnt that one Fagbemi Kareem, now at large, armed with a local single barrel gun and in company of four other persons- Olorunto Segun, Baba Shele, Lana Ojugbele, and Ashipa, trailed the herders and caught up with Umaru Aliu.
They allegedly shot him on a farmland belonging to Chief Ogunlana Fagbemi, alias Osewuya at Ijagure village, while Umaru Takake narrowly escaped unhurt.
The Amotekun Corps Commander in Ogun, David Akinremi, a retired Police Commissioner, who disclosed this yesterday, said after the alleged murder, the duo of Olorunto Segun and Baba Shele contacted one Akinyele Adebayo to assist them in dismembering the corpse and he obliged.
Akinremi said while Baba Shele took the head of the deceased away to an unknown destination, the remaining parts of the dismembered body were packed in a sack and buried in a pit near Oyan River at Oke-Ayo village, Imeko.
The Corps Commander noted that the arrested suspects had admitted their various roles in the criminal act even as they took the operatives to the scene where the dismembered body, excluding the head, were dumped with several parts missing.
The prime suspects; Fagbemi Kareem and Baba Shele were said to have been arrested by Ojo Police Division, Oyo State, for the same offence, while Lana Ojugbele, Olorunto Segun and Ashipa are still at large.
Meanwhile, the suspects Akinyele Adebayo and Idosu Gbalo are being processed for transfer to Ogun State Police Headquarters, Eleweran, for further action and prosecution.