Security Agents Arrest New Leader of ‘One Million Boys’ Criminal Gang In Ibadan

The new leader of a notorious gang in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, ‘One Million Boys’ has been arrested by the Joint Security Task Force, popularly known as ‘Operation Burst.’

The Director General of the JTF, Col. Oladipo Ajibola (retd), said the arrested gang leader known as Eji had been arrested and had been handed over to the police.

Security agents recently killed the leader of the gang, Abiola Ebila, and after this Eji was said to have assumed the leadership position of the gang and reportedly continued with the group’s criminal activities.

He said, “Operation Burst has been able to reduce criminality in Oyo State, people now go about doing their businesses without fear. We have effected a lot of arrests in relation to cultism, Internet related fraud and other criminal activities and suspects have been handed over to the right security agency concerned. Some of the high profile criminals among them was Abiola Ebila.

“Abiola Ebila, the leader of ‘One Million Boys’ was involved in kidnapping and we got him through one of the personalities he kidnapped while he was asking for ransom, the elimination of Abiola Ebila has sent other gang leaders out of Oyo State and we are still trailing those who are remaining.

“We have succeeded in getting one of them recently who is the second-in- command to the late Ebila. We handed him over to another security agency for proper investigation and prosecution and we urge the general public to avail the security agencies prompt information to nip criminality in the bud.”

He explained that the mode of operation of Operation Burst was to only swing into action in cases that other security agencies require strong back up force, siting the arrest of drug traffickers, kidnappers, armed robbers, cultists and others and handing the culprits over to the agency saddled by the law to prosecute each of the crime.