Operatives of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun, have arrested 36 suspects over alleged involvement in criminal activities in the state.

The state Commander of the Corps, Akogun Adeleye, disclosed this on Wednesday while parading the suspects at the corps headquarters in Akure.

According to him, 19 of the criminals were nabbed for alleged kidnapping, while the rest were for other offences such as stealing, burglary, and murder, among others.

He said, “You will notice that you always find members of the Amotekun Corps in every junction and every major street and this is to prevent kidnappers from entering houses to pick people.

“Today, again, we are parading about 36 suspects. I want to place it on record that in the last month, there were three kidnapped activities that we were able to file successfully. This means in the last one month, there have been no successful kidnapping activities in the state.

“Today, a cross-section of these criminals is different from what we normally have where we parade 20 people and 15 of them are kidnaping suspects. Today, we have more we have housebreaking and stealing suspects, and we remain resolute in our determination to flush them out of our society.

“Some of the suspected kidnappers and robbers that we were able to find were due to our intelligence report and we picked about 17 of them in a particular area in the state where we monitored.

“We equally have a suspected murderer; we have about eight cases of housebreaking and shops breaking,” he disclosed.

“I must say that with the cooperation of other state security agencies, we have been able to reduce the criminal activities in the state. The cross-section of these 36 suspects shows that their activities have dropped drastically in the state. We will still continue to ensure that people do their businesses normally and that they are not disturbed now that the state government is resolute in guaranteeing lives and property, we are also determined to ensure that.

“We want to appeal to the Olus that once they see the connection of unknown people in the forest, they should alert us immediately. I want to encourage the general public that once they see strange movement, they should let the security agencies know,” he advised.