A man by name Musa Abdulai, suspected to be an agent of the bandits in Ekiti State and supplying food items to them at their hideouts, has been arrested.
According to a press release signed by the Head of the Communications Department of the Ekiti State Amotekun Corps, Officer Adeleye Abiodun, 35-year-old Musa Abdulai, an indigene of Sokoto State residing at Shasha in Akure, Ondo State was on Monday 7th October, 2024 arrested in Ise Ekiti at about 6:30 pm.
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Adeleye pointed out that the suspect was grabbed by the Amotekun Operatives of lse-Ekiti Local Government Command at Oritan Forest Reserve located at Ise/Orun during a patrol and confessed that he had been supplying food items to people suspected to be Fulani/Bororo bandits hiding in the area.
Exhibits recovered from him at the scene of his arrest inside the forest included a sack bag containing food items.
He has since been handed over to the Divisional Police Station in Ise Ekiti for further investigations.
