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The Ondo State Security Network, also known as Amotekun Corps, has impounded 40 vehicles after a raid on some night clubs on Wednesday in Akure, the state capital.The state government had ordered that nightclubs and bars should stop operating beyond midnight in the state as part of measures to curb the spate of robberies and other criminal activities often carried out at night.
The Special Adviser to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on Security Matters, Alhaji Jimoh Dojumo, stated that despite the warning and directive of the government, some owners of nightclubs and beer parlours continued to flout the order. He said, “We had to raid the night clubs and impound the vehicles because there is a subsisting order of Mr Governor that the clubs should not operate at nights for security reasons.
“We discovered that many criminal activities are perpetrated at night and during the interrogation of suspects, we discovered that these criminals always used clubs as shields. The level of hard drugs intake in the clubs is high because after taking the drugs, you see them misbehaving; all these we want to stop in this state.”
The Commander of the Amotekun Corps, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, said the vehicles had been released to their owners after warning.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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