Amotekun Officers Arrests Truckload Of Herdsmen Going To Ibarapa, 25 Guns Recovered (Photos)

 

Operatives of the Oyo State chapter of the Western Nigeria Security Network, more commonly known as Amotekun, have intercepted a truck loaded with gunmen suspected to be herdsmen heading to Igangan community in the recently troubled Ibarapa area of the state. 

The truck, with enrollment number TUR30ZY, is enlisted with Kebbi State and the Amotekun authorities discovered 25 weapons and 10 canines in the truck close by the suspects. 

SaharaReporters was informed that the suspects had been given over to the police experts in Ido for all the more profiling. 

"The Oyo State Amotekun, Ido unit drove by Gbenga Olanrewaju made the capture. They are associated herders under lock and key with around 25 dane weapons and 10 canines. They have been given over to the police for additional cross examination," an authority said. 

There has been agitation in Igangan in Ibarapa as of late because of deteriorating weakness - kidnappings and killings. 

This heightened when a dish Oduduwa country fomenter, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, all the more prominently known as Sunday Igboho, gave a final proposal to Fulani herders, accepted to be behind the instability, to empty the state. 

Igboho himself on Sunday described how a few crooks discharged projectiles at him at the Seriki Fulani of Igangan, Saliu Abdulkadir's place in Ibarapa yet that they didn't hurt him. 

Prior on Friday, angry young people had likewise assaulted the Seriki Fulani, after viciousness ejected in Igangan, Ibarapa, in the Fulani people group, during which the houses and property of the Seriki Fulani, Abdulkadir, were scorched. 

Abdulkadir had disclosed to SaharaReporters that he, his spouses and kids were conveyed of the settlement, adding that 11 vehicles and houses were copied all the while. 

The Seriki had from that point fled the local area with his family, as oppressed adolescents put fire to the settlement. 

Igboho had requested that the executioner herders assaulting the South-West should leave. 

The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko, had additionally visited the local area, saying that Igboho's visit shortened the "relative harmony and tranquility" being appreciated in the Igangan people group. 

Onadeko had pledged to welcome the brains of the assault on the Fulani people group in Igangan to equity, repeating that the security offices would not watch while some criminal components go rogue. 

She had additionally guaranteed that the pyro-crime and the penetrate of the harmony which happened at Igangan would be researched to an obvious end result.