Insecurity: Osun police dispel alleged arrest of banditry suspects

The Osun State police command denied arresting any banditry suspects, contrary to misleading social media videos. Commissioner of Police Ibrahim Gotan stated that those arrested in Osogbo and Imesi-Ile were not bandits. In Osogbo, a 38-year-old man named Adebayo Sunday was apprehended but exhibited signs of mental instability and was referred to a psychiatric hospital. In Imesi-Ile, three herdsmen, Abdullahi Umaru, Usman Bello, and Umaru Aliyu, were arrested for malicious damage to farmland, not banditry, and had lived peacefully in the community for over twenty years.