Gbenro Adesina
A middle-aged man, Adeyemi Agboola, was on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 arrested in Oyo town for defrauding unsuspecting applicants into the recruitment of Oyo State Security Network, codenamed ‘Amotekun’.
Agboola, who owns a cyber café along Durbar Stadium road, was caught with eleven fake recruitment forms which he was reported selling to mostly semi-illiterate applicants at N500 per copy, with the promise of assisting the victims to secure employment into the Amotekun corps.
The Commandant of the Oyo State Security Network (Amotekun Corps), Colonel Olayanju Olayinka (Rtd.), in his reaction, said the culprit would face the law for his action as he has been handed over to the appropriate prosecuting agency. He urged the members of the public to be wary of individuals that would always want to take advantage of others in the society because the victims were educationally deficient.
He said, “It is very unfortunate that people can still take advantage of others on recruitment exercise just because the victims are unlettered. We shall dig more to know the number of victims that have fallen for the antics of this man.
“We have handed him over to the appropriate prosecuting security agency, he shall serve as a deterrence to others that might want to thread this bad way. The State government has been working non-stop to alleviate poverty and sundry social issues affecting our people, but we will not allow the common people be cheated by those who think they are cunning.”
Olayinka enjoined all participants from other zones to desists from cutting corners and that applicants should be very wary of the cyber operators they patronize for registration.
The screening exercise for the Ogbomoso zone will hold at the Ogbomoso Township stadium. Ogbomoso North and South participants would be screened on Friday September 25, while the screening of participants from Surulere local government will hold on Saturday, September 2020.
