Akinlalu killings: Police storm Amotekun headquarters, takes over detained suspects

•You deficiency powerfulness to unopen Amotekun operations – Osun lawmakers
•I won’t let unprovoked killings of my radical – Senator Fadahunsi
•Adeleke commends the Police investigation

By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo

Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigerian Police astatine the play stormed Osun Amotekun Corps office successful Osogbo, interrogating suspects illegally detained by the corps.

The investigating squad was deployed by the Inspector-General of Police pursuing a petition against the Amotekun Corps alleging extra-judicial killings astatine Akinlalu town, successful Ife-North Local Government Area of the state.

It volition beryllium recalled that Amotekun operatives killed 4 persons and wounded 8 others aft storming Akinlalu municipality allegedly to retrieve locally-fabricated weapons collected by a fishy which attracted nationalist outcry successful the state.

The IGP-IRT squad led by its Commander, SP Rotimi Ogunmuyiwa was accompanied to the Amotekun office astatine Power enactment country by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, CID, Bayonle Ogunmuyiwa wherever the suspects were interrogated.

Two of the suspects, claimed to person been detained for 5 weeks for dealing successful Indian hemp worthy N25,000. A herdsman claimed to person been detained for six days without knowing his offence portion different antheral said helium was detained for stealing lipid successful Ilesa.

The squad past told Amotekun officers to guarantee that the suspects were handed implicit to the nearest Divisional Police Officer. Bayonle disclosed the offences of the suspects were bailable and they should not beryllium down bars for much than 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Osun State House of Assembly berated the constabulary for sealing Amotekun operations, describing the determination arsenic not conscionable amerciable but politically motivated by Senator Francis Fadahunsi of Osun-East Senatorial District.

The Speaker, Mr Wale Egbedun portion speaking with newsmen connected Friday said the sealing disconnected of Amotekun cognition by the constabulary was violative and illegal.

His words, “The House is arsenic disturbed by credible reports linking this enactment to governmental interference. The Amotekun Corps remains a lawfully established and functional bureau of the Osun State Government and nary individual, governmental histrion oregon information instauration possesses the law authorization to unopen it down without a legislative revocation.

“The House condemns successful the strongest presumption the unlawful sealing of the Amotekun Corps operational offices and demands its contiguous unsealing to let the Corps resume its statutory responsibilities without disruption”.

Reacting, Senator Fadahunsi affirmed that helium invited constabulary to analyse the activities of Amotekun, having mislaid indigenes and residents of the territory to the nefarious activities of the corps since February this year. He said the corps has constituted itself into a nuisance alternatively than protecting the territorial integrity of the authorities from aggression which it was created to do.

“The Amotekun are expected to support the territorial integrity of the authorities not to commencement terrorising. Even successful my ain town, Amotekun arrested idiosyncratic implicit a onshore case. Can they bash that successful Ede?

“I americium the Senator of Ife/Ijesa senatorial district, and this is not astir the APC oregon PDP. From February to date, I’ve mislaid 12 radical to Amotekun’s killing.

“I was the 1 who invited the police, arsenic I can’t proceed to fto them termination my people. During the situation that occurred astatine the section authorities election, I mislaid 4 people. Many are inactive roaming astir with bullets successful their body. Nobody has been arrested. Do they expect maine to support quiescent arsenic the Senator representing the district? I volition not support quiet. They would not termination a azygous goat successful my country again. If they nonstop them to spell and destabilize my ain Senatorial District, I volition not let it”, helium said.

However, Governor Ademola Adeleke successful a connection issued by his spokesperson Olawale Rasheed connected Friday commended the Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun for investigative steps taken truthful far. The Governor urged the constabulary to travel regularisation of instrumentality successful the process with a presumption to protecting those i...