War: As Herdsmen Attacks Amotekun, And Destroy farms in Ondo State.
War: As Herdsmen Attacks Amotekun, And Destroy farms in Ondo State.
By Rowlandgate.
The Ondo State Security Network Agency , Amotekun, on Wednesday said some herdsmen attacked its operatives on a farm at Osi Community , in Akure North Local Government Area of the state , while the operatives were trying to settle a rift between them and the farmers in the community .
The operatives of the agency were said to have moved to the community , following a distress call from the farmers that cows had destroyed their farms in the area .
The state Commander of Amotekun , Chief Adetunji Adeleye , who disclosed this to journalists in Akure , the state capital, however, said one of the herdsmen was arrested with dangerous weapons while 16 cows were seized by the operatives.
He stated , “ Some farmers from Osi Community ran to the office complaining that their farms had been destroyed by herds . We sent our men there to assess the situation . They found out that the herds were actually on the farm and we invited the herdsmen.
But unfortunately, on getting there , they attacked our men with knives and other dangerous weapons . But we were able to arrest one of them , named Abdulkadir Mohammed.
Adeleye also disclosed that two suspected cattle rustlers were arrested by his men while a NISSAN Serena marked LAGOS FJ 423 KRD , brought by the suspected rustlers to steal cows belonging to one Alhaji Ilyasu was impounded. Odogwublog.com
He said, “ One Alhaji Ilyasu , a Fulani man came to us that some people came with a Serena Bus to steal their cattle . They came to us and we sent our men out . We were able to recover the vehicle they wanted to used in stealing the cows, we also recovered the cows.
“ We were able to trace some of the rustlers that ran away to somewhere in Ogun State. We have apprehended one Sudauna Gombe and one Ogunyale Sola , who was the driver of the abandoned Serena . We have handed them over to the Agro Department of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps for detailed investigation.
“ We recovered two cows , which we have returned to the Fulani man that owns them , and we brought the vehicle to our office here because the rustlers ran away and abandoned the vehicle .
But we were able to arrest those involved and they had confessed that they had been in the trade for some time . ”
The Amotekun boss also disclosed that over 100 suspects had been arrested by men of the security agency in the state since it started its operations .
