Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Ekiti State Command has paraded six persons in the Command’s Counter Terrorism Base along Afao Road, Ado Ekiti .
The suspects Fakuade Ayodeji 38years, Micheal Samuel 39 years, Bamidele Atowoju 25 years, Pelumi Ojo 23 years, Temitope Oke 32 years, and Makinde Oluwaropo 26 years were arrested at separate locations in Ado Ekiti and Ondo State .
Fakuade Ayodeji was arrested in connection with an online Fraud in Akure.
The suspect purchased a iphone XR at a phone shop near Osekita in Ado Ekiti with a fake alert of one hundred and sixty naira to the shop owner through a non existing account. The suspect left the shop with the assurance that he had paid for the phone he purchased.
The shop owner who did not see the alert for days contacted the suspect through phone calls which he did not respond to. He later blocked the seller’s number and cut the shop owner off from reaching him. The Counter Terrorism Unit of the Command went ahead and tracked the suspect and later arrested him in Akure, Ondo State.
Other suspects were arrested for the drug related offences and cospiracy. They were caught where they are selling and using substances suspected to be Colorado and ice .
The suspects were arrested along Afao road where some of them are residing . Other suspects were arrested in the same axis where they have been engaging in the illicit business.
The State Commandant Mr John Olatunde Fayemi called on parents to take full responsibility of taking care of their children.
Youths are the future of Nigeria and we need to correct some of them who are engaging in illicit act that can jeopardize their future and constitute nuisance to the society.
In another development, the Counter Terrorism Unit of the Command has issued a notice of warning to all Landlords and landowners around Oyabam Hotel Federal Poly road Ado Ekiti to desist from harbouring cult groups.
The Unit received an intelligence which they are currently investigating concerning the activities of cult group in the areas as they are stealing and raping young girls while harassment of people in the area has become a daily routine.
The Unit will not hesitate to arrest anyone found troubling the environment as officers have been placed to comb the area.
A victim of cult attack was picked by the Unit today and quickly rushed to Federal Medical Center annex after he was seriously injured. The suspect quickly ran away to escape arrest as efforts are intensified to get them arrested soon.
The suspects will be charged to court after preliminary investigation by the Counter Terrorism Unit so discourage other youths from engaging in drug abuse, Fraud and stealing.