Another truck carrying 168 ‘armed ‘men, 40 motorcycles hidden under cows intercepted in Ondo

For the third time in a row,  the Ondo Amotekun corps command has intercepted another trailer-load of migrants the security outfits now calls invaders, at least for being armed with charms, and moving en masse.

The latest batch comprised 168 young men from Kano and Jigawa hidden at the bottom of a truck conveying cattle and no fewer than 40 motorcycles.

The vehicle was interdicted around Ita Ogbolu, Akure North, Ondo on Monday, according to Commandant Adetunji Adeleye.

Adeleye said that despite their claims that they were picked up in groups along the road and had no destination, the migrants, according to investigation, came from Jigawa and Kano. Ad they had no destination

“Cows are on the upper floor, motorcycles are wrapped and disassembled in the middle, and 168 people are resting down on the lower floors, so if you’re not observant, you won’t see them.

“Upon interrogation, many of them do not have an address of where they are going, nobody invited them and we are becoming curious of these invasions.

“I called it invasion because you see over 100 able-bodied men concealing themselves under animals, it shows they are up to negative motives.

“As a Nigerian, regardless of the geopolitical zone, you have the right to lawfully go to any part of the country, but it is the unlawful part we are contesting.

“When you now move in a suspicious way, that would amount to criminality, that is where it puts you to question,” he said.

Since the three interceptions, the states involved have given no official statements. Nor has any of Nigeria’s security agencies.

Ondo has witnessed a series of bandit and terrorists attacks in recent times, including the Owo Catholic church massacre.

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