Metro/Crime
Amotekun Intercepts Armed intruders In Osun (photos)
The Osun State Amotekun Corps, have burst attempts by intruders who claimed they were from Northern part of the country to invade the state.
The tactics adopted by the intruders was that they divided themselves into groups to disrupt the peace of Osun, were intercepted inside different commuter buses, with multifarious machetes, cutlasses, shovels and assorted charms.
Speaking during interrogations, the victims claimed to be labourers at mining sites in Osun, but could not explain why they came with weapons and assorted charms and were trying to enter into the state of Osun, illegally.
It would be recalled that the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Adegboyega Oyetola on border closure, to forestall spread of the dreaded COVID-19, is still in force.
The drivers of the commuter buses also claimed that they were only conveying the ”illegal travellers” from Ibadan, Oyo state capital to Osogbo, in Osun; after they had alighted from trucks coming from the North.
To prevent transmission of COVID-19 within the state, the victims were sent back to where they came from, by men of Osun Amotekun corps, while swords, Cutlasses, Machetes and assorted charms, among others that was recovered from the intruders were sized.
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