Police in Oyo on Thursday paraded a former leader of Oyo State Park Management System (PMS), Mukaila Lamidi, popularly known as Auxiliary, wanted for alleged murder, attempted murder, arms dealing, armed robbery and kidnapping.
Commissioner of police Adebola Hamzat, while briefing journalists at the Command’s headquarters in Ibadan, said Auxiliary was declared wanted on June 2, 2023.
Hamzat said that the suspect was declared wanted in furtherance of a well-coordinated intelligence-led raid by the police on May 30 and May 31, 2023 on the suspect’s Diamond Hotel residence at Alakia, where 78 suspects were arrested and weapons recovered.
According to him, the exhibits recovered from the suspect’s residence and hotel include two SMG riffles with two magazines, one AK-47 rifle, one pump action riffle, nine locally-made pistols and two English pistols with magazines.
Others were 70 rounds of AK-47 ammunitions, 338 pieces of live cartridges, 62 expended, 13 pieces of 9-mm ammunition, nine jack knives, three axes and 400 pieces of long cutlasses.
Hamzat said that the suspect was recently arrested due to the collaborative efforts of the police and other security agencies in the state.
“Furtherance of these, discreet intelligence-led search commenced for the sacked PMS chieftain, with the help of technology, collaborative efforts with sister services and community policing.
“Many locations were identified, traced and combed for months until his recent arrest in a concerted effort with our sister services,” he said.
Hamzat said that the suspect would be charged to court for the alleged offences.
