PHOTOS: Scores arrested for alleged looting, vandalisation in Osun

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Scores of Osun State residents have been arrested for alleged looting, vandalisation in Osun State while some of the items stolen had been recovered from them.

This is coming few hours after the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, ordered the immediate mobilization of all police operational assets and resources to bring an end to the wanton violence, killings, looting and destruction of public and private property in the country.

A top security operative who preferred anonymity told Tribune Online that scores of suspected looters who allegedly participated in the vandalization and looting of public and private properties during the #EndSARS protests had been arrested in their different abodes after a raid was carried out by the security operatives.

It was gathered that those arrested were nabbed by the police operational team of the command after they received order from the state police commissioner (CP), Undie Adie to act promptly in compliance with the IGP directive.

It will be recalled that looters invaded many politicians homes and government offices and carted away valuable items in the last few days.

Informed sources further hinted that, the state commissioner of police is now working round the clock to see that lives and properties of the people in the state are securely protected.

Speaking on the development on Sunday in Osogbo, the state police command Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Opalola Yemisi, affirmed that the state command has swung into action, assuring that the looters would soon be brought to book.

According to her: “Nobody is above the law of the land and that is why the command is assuring the people of the state that all their looted goods would be recovered and the perpetrators of the acts would be brought to book accordingly.”

She, however, warned looters to desist from the acts she described such as criminal, saying “very soon, whosoever still engages in it would be fished out to face the wrath of the law.”

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