Hours After Ekiti School Pupils Abduction, Joint Security Team Arrests 5 Suspects In Forest

In a deliberate efforts to track down kidnappers of private School Pupils and their teachers in Ekiti State, a combined team of Police Officers, Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corp, (NSCDC), Amotekun, Oodua People’s Congress, (OPC), and local hunters on Tuesday night embarked on a bush combing operation through Oke-Osun, Ikere/Igbo-Okah, and the thick forest around the Iju/Ikere boundary.

The move was part of special operation to flush out criminal elements, especially kidnappers, out of the state.

During the operation, five suspected kidnappers identified as Usman Jelili, Mohammed Bande, Abubakar Aliu, Isah Abdullahi, and Suleiman Abdullahi were arrested.

While responding to interrogation, the suspects claimed to be herdsmen, but it was later discovered that none of them had cattle, and no cattle were found with them in the forest where they were arrested.

A statement by DSP Abutu Sunday, Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti State Command, said, “The following items were found with them in the forest: two motorcycles, one cutlass, one jack knife/dagger and four phones.”