Man supplying food to bandits arrested in Ekiti

A man by name Musa Abdulai, suspected to be an agent of the bandits in Ekiti State and supplying food items to them at their hideouts, has been arrested.

According to the press release made available to DAILY POST by the Head of the Communications Department of the Ekiti State Amotekun Corps, Officer Adeleye Abiodun, 35-year-old Musa Abdulai, an indigene of Sokoto State residing at Shasha in Akure, Ondo State was on Monday 7th October, 2024 arrested in Ise Ekiti at about 6:30 pm.

Adeleye pointed out that the suspect was grabbed by the Amotekun Operatives of lse-Ekiti Local Government Command at Oritan Forest Reserve located at Ise/Orun during a patrol and confessed that he had been supplying food items to people suspected to be Fulani/Bororo bandits hiding in the area.

Exhibits recovered from him at the scene of his arrest inside the forest included a sack bag containing food items.

He has since been handed over to the Divisional Police Station in Ise Ekiti for further investigations.