Amotekun operatives intercept Northern youths in Osun

* Seize weapons, charms

The Osun State arm of the Southwest security outfit – Amotekun – has reportedly blocked an attempt by some northern youths to sneak into the State.

Swords, cutlasses, machetes and assorted charms, among others, were allegedly seized from the travelers, who claimed to have been coming from Nasarawa and Zamfara states.

The Director-General of the Amotekun corps in Osun, Comrade Amitolu Shittu, said the suspects were arrested on Monday.

He said the inter-state offenders, who divided themselves into groups, were intercepted inside different commuter bus, with multifarious machetes, cutlasses, shovels and assorted charms.

Comrade Amitolu said the intruders claimed to be labourers at mining sites in Osun, but could not explain why they came with weapons and assorted charms  trying to enter into the State illegally.

“The drivers of the commuter buses also claimed that they were only conveying the ”illegal travelers” from Ibadan, Oyo State capital to Osogbo, in Osun; after they had alighted from trucks coming from the North.

“We, thereafter, sent them back to where they came from, to prevent transmission of COVID-19,” he said.

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