From Bamigbola Gbolagunte, Akure
Ondo State Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Operation Amotekun has again intercepted 168 suspected invaders with dangerous charms and weapons.
The travellers were said to have cleverly concealed themselves and 40 motorcycles beneath cows loaded in two trucks. This happened barely five days after the corps arrested 151 suspected charm-carrying invaders cleverly concealed behind bags of rice, around Sango, Akure/Ado road.
Parading the latest suspects at the command headquarters in Akure, the state Commander of the corps, Mr Adetunji Adeleye said the suspects were intercepted at a location around Itaogbolu-Iju in Akure North Local Government Area of the state by his men who were on stop-and-search.
Adeleye explained that investigations revealed that the suspects were coming from Kano and Jigawa States, while they claimed that they were picked in groups along the road and they had no destination.
He said: “After the profiling of the earlier ones, majority of them who do not have any case to answer, we saw them back to where they came from, but we found out that the influx of invaders still continues.
“On Sunday, our stop-and-search team saw these two trucks and they told them that they were on their way to Ondo State with cows, but after careful examination we found out that they carefully concealed about 40 motorcycles with 168 people lying down beneath the motorcycles.
“The upper floor has cows, the middle has motorcycles wrapped and dismantled, and at the lower floors, there were 168 people lying down, such that if you are not careful, you won’t observe it. So, we asked where they were going, why they packed themselves and why they were avoiding people and they said they were coming to Ondo State.
“Upon interrogation, we discovered that none of them had an address of where they were going. I called it invasion because you see over 100 able-bodied men concealing themselves under animals, it shows they are up to negative motives,” Adeleye said.