Officials of Ondo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun have returned at least 137 illegal occupants of forest reserves in the state who are suspected to be security threat.
This is coming 48 hours after 42 persons were returned to their states of origin after entering the state without being able to explain their mission to the state.
The people were apprehended at Elegbeka forest area along Ifon-Owo road on their arrival from unknown destination.
The state commander of Amotekun corps, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, said the illegal forest occupants would be escorted out of Ondo to where they came from.
He said, “We got an Intel that very many people bombarded (forests at) Elegbeka–Ifon area in the state. We moved in on questioning majority of them said they were from the northern part of the country and others said they are from Ogun state.
“We asked for their mission and they were not able to give us what they are here for. We brought some of them (to Akure) and their sponsors here to the headquarters (of Amotekun) for proper investigation.
“We profiled them and found out that they were conniving with some persons in Ose to be given space for settlement in the government’s forest reserve, which makes them illegal occupants of the forests.”
