Ex-Amotekun DG Alleges Recruitment of Criminals into Ọṣun Corps

October 13, 2025

By Adejumo David Adebayo

The Pioneer Director-General of the Ọṣun Amotekun Corps, Amitolu Shittu, has raised concerns over alleged recruitments of criminal elements into the security outfit due to improper recruitment practices.

Shittu, who was appointed in April 2020 by former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, made the allegations while speaking with journalists in Osogbo on Saturday.

He claimed that the current State Commander, Isaac Adekunle Omoyele, had recruited cultists, ex-convicts, and drug users into the corps, thereby undermining public trust in the agency’s operations.

“The current State Commander of the Amotekun Corps, Isaac Omoyele, recruited all manner of criminals into the corps.

Cultists, ritualists, ex-convicts, hard drug users and dealers were taken into the group and handed arms. They must be subjected to fresh profiling by the security agencies,” Shittu alleged.

He further claimed that those allegedly recruited under the present leadership were now posing threats to residents across Ọṣun State and accused Omoyele of personalising the agency’s operations by diverting its personnel to duties outside its legal mandate.