Trending

Friday 31st October, 2025

Security

BREAKING: ‘Rude Shock’ As Amotekun Commander Dies

Posted by: Quickresponse | June 27, 2023

Caption: •Late Ogun Amotekun Commander David Akinremi

Caption: •Late Ogun Amotekun Commander David Akinremi




The Commander of the Amotekun Corps in Ogun State, David Akinremi has been reported dead.

“Akinremi, a retired Commissioner of Police, was said to have died on Monday evening,” according to a Vanguard report.


The paper said it gathered that Akinremi “had been nursing an undisclosed ailment for quite some time until he breathed his last on Monday”.

Akinremi was in 2021 appointed by Governor Dapo Abiodun as the pioneer Commander of the newly established Amotekun Corps.

“The Amotekun Corps under his watch, worked with other security agents in their attempts to rid the State of crimes,” the paper said.



It quoted the Commander of the So-Safe Corps, Soji Ganzallo, as confirming Akinremi’s death as while describing it as “a rude shock”.



Source: News Express
Advertisement

Headline News in Security

Other News in Security

Breaking: Tinubu sacks service chiefs, appoints replacements

Breaking: Tinubu sacks service chiefs, appoints replacements

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has made changes in the hierarchy of the Service Chiefs in furtherance …

Inside Tunji Ojo’s Mission to Transform Nigeria’s Correctional System

Inside Tunji Ojo’s Mission to Transform Nigeria’s Correctional System

By Femi Salako When the Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji Ojo, visited the Medium Security…

Nigerian Correctional officer wins 2025 UN Trailblazer Award

Nigerian Correctional officer wins 2025 UN Trailblazer Award

  Chief Superintendent of Corrections, CSC Olukemi Ibikunle of the Nigerian Correctional S…