The Ondo State Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Amotekun Corps, has suspended three of its operatives for allegedly undermining and disparaging the corps’ management

While identifying the suspended operatives as Taiwo Abu, Victor Akinsipe and Julius Akinjumi, the commander of the corps, Adetunji Adeleye, stated that the erring officers were sponsored to divert the corps’s attention from its mandate.

The corps commander disclosed this while parading some suspects at the corps headquarters in Alagbaka, Akure, the state capital.

Adeleye, who declared the officers wanted, stated that the operatives, who made some false remarks about the corps on social media, stressed that they had neglected their oath of secrecy.

He said, “Every organisation has its own rules; the Ondo State Security Network Agency is not an exception. The law setting up the corps specifically says the corps should give out identity cards and warrant cards for operatives who are full staff of the government as an agency.

“All that you had seen on social media that the 15 points they raised are all false allegations, and disciplinary actions had been put in place by the corps.

“And as we stand today, the three of them have been reprimanded. We refused to be dragged into the controversies surrounding each and every one of them. As you can see, the entire management staff is ensuring that we are not distracted. They are acting in isolation.”

Meanwhile, the corps have arrested a 29-year-old suspected informant, Adebayo Ogungbemi, who had allegedly been acting as a spy to kidnappers in the state.

According to Adeleye, the suspect, who had been under surveillance for a while, was arrested in the agrarian community of Ademekun power line at Ago-Dada camp in the Akure South Local Council Area of the state.

“The Fulani men trained them on the use of the AK-47, and he has been working for them until the joint patrol team of the Civil Defence and Amotekun, with the assistance of the regent and people of Ademekun village, arrested him, and he also confessed to them and confessed to us.”

The Amotekun Commander also disclosed the arrest of 57-year-old Nasiru Suleiman for allegedly dismantling government-owned heavy-duty equipment parked at a government yard along the Akure–Ondo road.

According to the Commander, Suleiman had been involved in the systematic dismantling of caterpillars and other construction machinery for over three months, using hired tools to remove valuable parts.