Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Ekiti State Command along Ado Ikere Road Ekiti State today paraded five suspects in connection with illicit drug circulations into campuses in the State, cultism and a fake estate agent who has been milking desperate tenants in the State capital, Ado Ekiti.
Parading the suspects, Commandant Agboola Adisa Sunday explained that one Ayomide Iyanu 25 years was arrested along Nova Road in Adebayo after operatives of the Counter Terrorism Unit traced him from a University environment in the state to the area where he was eventually arrested. He was found to be in possession of substances suspected to be cannabis sativa and other illicit drugs that were yet to be ascertained.
The commandant who explained further that Ayomide who is an illicit drug dealer in the State capital was arrested following an intelligence information from our campuses in the State that, some unscrupulous elements are always visiting our campuses to distribute illicit drugs to the student there by aiding cult-related activities in the schools, opined that drugs and criminal tendencies are siamese twins, if one is curbed, the other may be inactive.
Also one Falodun Abiodun Ebenezer was arrested in the State capital after series of complaints against him that he has going around and parading himself as an estate agent, using fictitious names to dupe his clients in which preliminary investigation showed that, he has successfully duped over 15 clients amounting to over two million naira.
In another development, Biodun Tosin. 22 years of Onala Street Ado Ekiti, Osas Abdulahi 32 years of Bawa Estate and Daniel Uche 28 of Adebayo Street all in Ado Ekiti were arrested following a distressed call received from one Echewija Matthew 23 years along Ayemi Garage Ado Ekiti after some cult members wreck havoc on the victim with dangerous weapon that nearly took his life.
The Command’s Counter Terrorism Unit arrested three persons in connection with the dastard act while effort are in top gear to apprehend others.
The victim, whose Bajaj motorbike with registration number JER 245 Ekiti was taken away by the cult members also lost other items including a huge some of money.
Mr Agboola who was critical about eradicating cultism in our campuses and towns in state challenged parents to study their wards and take note of any new behaviours exhibited by them so that rehabilitation can be done on time before damaging our future leaders ,also urged the general public to make available information and facts that can assist in sanitizing our environment from criminal elements as well as their enablers.
He added that actions will be expedite on them after finalizing preliminary investigations from Counter Terrorism Unit of the command so that the next action of presenting them before the law of the land will be seamless.