By: Oluwatosin Adesola
….Says over 50 Cars impounded in ongoing Searching operations
…..Commander insists Law empowers Amotekun in collaboration with security agencies to track criminals on roads
…..Our men never asked for phones, social media blackmailing will not stop operations —Commander.
The Ondo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun Corps has insisted that the ongoing searching tracking of vehicles that are not registered and glass tinted, is to foil plot by criminal elements and bandits to launch devastating attacks in the state; SUNSHINETRUTH can report
The Corps also described the searching operation as a joint one among the Nigeria police, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, noting that relevant enabling law empowers Amotekun Corps to collaborate with other security agencies to track criminals on major roads.
Speaking with newsmen in Akure today, the State Commander of Amotekun, Chief Adetunji Adeleye disclosed that over fifty unregistered vehicles had been impounded while others were impounded for tinted glass without police permit.
Chief Adeleye flanked by the Senior Special Assistant on Security matters, Alhaji Jimoh Dojumo, said intelligent reports indicated that eighty percent of crimes being committed in Ondo state and neighbouring states were perpetrated with Okada, tinted and unregistered vehicles.
The Amotekun Commander said it was not through that his men and other security agents on the roads in the last few days were checking phones or demanding vehicle particulars, describing such as a mere cheap social media blackmail which could not stop the security operatives from protecting the citizenry during this yuletide and beyond.
“For benefit of doubt section 5(A) of the Ondo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps Law empowers us to collaborate with other security agencies to track criminals on major roads. The law is in public domain.”
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Chief Adeleye vowed that all impounded vehicles must first register and obtain glass tinted permit from relevant government’s agency and the police before they would be released to owners.
The Amotekun boss cautioned owners to immediately register their unregistered vehicles and obtain police tinted glass permit to avoid such from being impounded.
