Troops of Operation Safe Conduct have arrested suspected political thugs.<\/p>\n
Colonel Sagir Musa, Acting Director Army Public Relations, said this in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n
He said soldiers deployed to provide security for the Presidential\/National Assembly Elections at Iwaraja Junction along Osun and Ogun axis on Saturday at about 0730hrs intercepted three hoodlums on motorcycle moving towards Ilesa East LGA to disrupt smooth conduct of elections in that area.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hoodlums were arrested and the following items were recovered from them: 1 locally made pistol, 1 gutles, 3 rounds of cartridges, 3 mobile phones, iPad, 1\u00d7 Peace Corps face cap, 1 Peace Corps ID card and and the sum of N14,300.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose arrested will be handed over to the police upon completion of initial profiling and investigation,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Troops of Operation Safe Conduct have arrested suspected political thugs. Colonel Sagir Musa, Acting Director Army Public Relations, said this in a statement on Sunday. He said soldiers deployed to provide security for the Presidential\/National Assembly Elections at Iwaraja Junction along Osun and Ogun axis on Saturday at about 0730hrs intercepted three hoodlums on motorcycle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,28],"tags":[38,190,293,237],"class_list":["post-4777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-election","tag-gunmen","tag-soldiers","tag-thuggery"],"yoast_head":"\n