Eight persons include the alleged shooter of an
elephant in a forest reserve popularly called
elephants forest in a border area between J1 and
J3 in Ijebu-Igbo, Ijebu North local government
area of Ogun State have been arrested.
The State commissioner for Forestry, Ayo Olubori
who disclosed this to newsmen in Abeokuta on
Sunday, said he had to pass a night in the jungle
after a-three hour journey withing the forest
before the suspects were arrested, describing the
act as a very serious crime.
Olubori said the elephant was killed at the wee
hours of Thursday by a man (name withheld)
after the suspect encroached the forest
exclusively reserved for elephants in the state and
was later joined by some villagers in
dismembering it.
According to Olubori the killer of the elephant and
some villagers who joined him in dismembering
the elephants after he killed it have been taken to
a police station in Ijebu-Igbo for further
interrogation.
" The suspected killer of the wild animal was
arrested on the spot at 1 :am . The animal is an
endangered species, we have them limited, if care
is not taken they may go into extinction. We
don't want to be sanctioned by Wild lives
activists, United Nations Prohibition, among
others.
" We will charge the suspects to court hopefully
by Monday. Preliminary report indicated that, the
man was sent by some prominent people in the
society to get them the elephants tusks which
cost N25 million each, he has confessed to the
crime and he is on tape", the commissioner said.
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