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As Amotekun boss demands sophisticated weapons to tackle criminalities in S’West
By Dayo Johnson & Shina Abubakar
No fewer than seven persons were killed, weekend, in Osun and Ekiti states by gunmen suspected to be bandits.
Among the victims was a family of six reportedly killed when the gunmen stormed a farming settlement in Wasinmi village, Irewole local government area of Osun State, while the other was a passenger hit by stray bullets, as the gunmen fired at a moving commercial vehicle in Ekiti State.
Policemen, men of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, and Hunters Group of Nigeria were said to have been deployed in the bush in the area to fish out the killers.
Confirming the Osun attack, yesterday, in Osogbo, the state’s Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, who spoke through his Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Yemisi Opalola, said the incident happened late Saturday night.
Olokode, who noted that police had commenced investigation into the incident, said the perpetrators of the evil act would be brought to justice.
The CP also disclosed that he had moved to the village with detectives to hunt down the perpetrators of the act.
He, however, said preliminary investigation ruled out a possible farmers/herders clash, adding that apart from launching manhunt for the suspects, police had begun discreet investigation into the circumstances behind the killings.
The CP appealed to the people of the state, particularly residents of Ikire and its environs not to panic but collaborate with the Police by giving timely information that would assist in arresting the culprits.
He described the incident as unfortunate and vowed that the police would apprehend the culprits to face the law.
In another attack in Ekiti State, a passenger was reportedly killed as gunmen shot at a commercial vehicle in transit between Ikere Ekiti and Iju, a border town in Ondo State.
The Ekiti PPRO, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident,…
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