Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Ekiti State Command Ado Ekiti has paraded four suspects in connection with various crimes.
The suspects were arrested following discreet intelligence and investigation on the activities of some groups of people who are in the habit of stealing car batteries in the state capital and other big cities in the state.
The State Command has been inundated with complaints from car owners in the state concerning the sudden disappearance of car batteries in the state especially, cars that are parked along the road, faulty cars and automated vehicles.
The Counter Terrorism Unit of the State Command worked on intelligence received along the Atikakan and Irona axis of the Ado Ekiti in which one Tobi Sunday 22 years, residing at Akin Akeju Street was arrested while attempting to steal a car battery around 4am with other suspects at large after seeing the operatives of the unit.
Items recovered from him include four different ATM cards believed to have been stolen from cars forcefully opened by the suspects in an attempt to steal their batteries. Tobi who is a native of Ado Ekiti confessed to having been in the business for a long time and has operated in different areas of the state capital.
Olaiya Pelumi, 20 years old, a native of Ilasa Ekiti who resides in Ado Ekiti was also arrested along Ikere /Ado by the Counter Terrorism Unit on issues bordering on fraud and conspiracy.
Tobi who is a fuel attendant disappeared with over 24 million naira belonging to his employer in Aisegba Ekiti and ran away without any trace.
Luck ran out on him after a series of tracking and manhunt for him as he was trying to flee the state capital having noticed that CTU had located his hideout in Ikere Ekiti.
Another suspect paraded was Junior Michael, 24 years, from Ebonyi State. The suspect was arrested along Ereguru Street in Ado Ekiti with substances suspected to be cannabis sativa, ice, cocaine, Colorado and other illicit drugs.
Tobi who confessed to having been a drug dealer, is the also suspected to have been a member of a cult group terrorising Ereguru axis of the capital along with his gangs who are currently at large.
One Ayodeji Ogundipe, 37 years old, was also apprehended along Dallimore street in Ado Ekiti, was arrested on allegations of attempted murder of Adeosun Olamide who resides along Rose Bud Area in Ado Ekiti. Ayodeji was arrested with a substance suspected to be cannabis sativa in his house while he was trying to escape arrest after sighting the operatives of the Counter Terrorism Unit.
Commenting on the arrests, Commandant John Olayemi warned parents and guardians in the state to watch the behaviours of their children and monitor their companies as the rate at which drugs are circulating in Ado Ekiti calls for concerted efforts from parents, security agencies, proprietors of schools, principal of secondary school and members of the public.
This is necessary to have at least, a reduction in drug-propelled crimes like cultism, rape, armed robbery, stealing and other heinous crimes orchestrated by illicit drug intakes.
