By Yemi Olajutemu
Ado Ekiti
The Ekiti State Police Command has paraded seven suspects, arrested in connection with various criminal activities in the state.
The Police Public Relation Officer, Mr Sunday Abutu who paraded the suspects at the police headquarters in Ado, said the success followed a tip off and hard work of the officers and men of the command’s Rapid Response Squad.
Mr Abutu who acknowledged the support and cooperation received from members of the public especially by giving timely and useful information that led to the achievements, promised that the Police will at all time, rise up to its responsibility to perform its mandatory and statutory duty of protection of lives and properties of the citizens.
According to him, items recovered from the suspects included four berrata pistols and forty rounds of 9mm ammunition. The PPRO explained that part of those paraded were some suspected kidnappers operating along Ikole /Ijesa-Isu-Ekiti Road, and one Akamo Ayodeji, the suspected murderer of one Akomolafe Patience a 100 level student of Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) who was murdered in 2019.
Mr Abutu noted that as soon as investigations are concluded, all the suspects arrested would be charged to court of law for prosecution.