quote: He said his community has employed the services of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) to provide security in the town, saying: "The employment of OPC was the immediate alternative available within our reach to restore peace that was scattered by armed robbery with the participation of the police, in whom the community had reposed her security hopes".
Need I say more? Bakassi is banned and OPC is being hired in the South West to provide security. And you still say we are one country?
Police arrest colleagues, others for alleged robbery in Ekiti
From Ifedayo Sayo, Ado-Ekiti
IT was a case of the hunter becoming the hunted when seven policemen were listed among 14 suspects arrested yesterday for armed robbery in Ekiti State.
The suspects, who were brought to Ado-Ekiti headquarters of the State Police Command in handcuffs, had in the past terrorised the people of Aramoko, Erin and Ikere-Ekiti.
In their last operation at Aramoko, four of their victims were allegedly dispossessed of huge sums of money.
The victims, Messrs Olorunfemi Solomon, David Adeyun, Zacheaus Adeyanju and Ayodeji Ogunlana told journalists how they were beaten and forced to part with their money at gun-point
One of the victims, Ogunlana, who sustained injury from matchet cuts by the robbers, said he was forced to open his door for the robbers whom he thought were providing security.
According to him, the robbers came in a police patrol vehicle and demanded for the money he made from his cocoa business, saying he had to part with N30,000 to save himself from being killed.
However, luck ran out of the suspects when some members of the community identified the policemen in the gang as the brains behind the operation.
This was followed by a protest by members of the Aramoko Community to the State Police Command during which the robbers were identified and subsequently arrested.
The State Police Commissioner, Mr. Samuel Adekunle, confirmed the arrest of the 14 suspects, including some policemen.
He, however, refused to give the number of policemen arrested, saying the suspected armed robbers would be made to face justice.
Meanwhile, the Alara of Aramoko, Oba Wole Amele, has petitioned the State Police Commissioner on the alleged involvement of some policemen in armed robbery operations in his domain in recent times.
He said his community has employed the services of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) to provide security in the town, saying: "The employment of OPC was the immediate alternative available within our reach to restore peace that was scattered by armed robbery with the participation of the police, in whom the community had reposed her security hopes".
Though he noted the role of the police in the maintenance of peace, the traditional ruler said the people of Aramoko had lost confidence in the officers serving at the divisional police command in Aramoko.
"My community is no more interested in the security patrol of these dented (police) officers. I do not guarantee their safety in case they are on patrol in the town", he said.
The monarch requested for the immediate re-deployment of all policemen in the town, saying "my people are not ready to co-operate with them in the discharge of entrusted security duties".
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