The Ekiti Police Command has arrested no fewer than five suspected kidnappers inside a forest near Iju/Ikere boundary, hours after six schoolchildren and their teachers were abducted in the state.
These suspects were apprehended during a joint operation by the police, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Amotekun, Oodua Peoples Congress (O.P.C), and local hunters in Oke-Osun, Ikere/Igbo-Okah area of the state.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, Sunday Abutu, disclosed this on Tuesday through a statement made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti, the state capital.
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Abutu said the suspects initially claimed to be herdsmen, but none of them had any cattle and no cattle were seen with them in the forest where they were caught.
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He said the police recovered two motorcycles, one cutlass, one jack, one dagger, and four phones from the suspects.
