Suspected armed bandits have reportedly abducted two persons in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State.
The incident occurred on Wednesday at about 18:00hours, when one Mallam Garba and his son, Bala, all residents of Ungwan Kambari Ologede, Idofin Odo-Ashe jurisdiction, were kidnapped by armed bandits on their way from the farm.It was gathered that the area is close to Babanla, where a military base is located. However, it was later revealed that the son escaped from the assailants, but the father was whisked away.
Similarly, bandits have kidnapped a housewife identified as Rukayat and shot her brother-in-law, Abdulateef, after attacking Igbo Ofe Ora community near Oke-Ode in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State.
According to Sahara Reporters, the attackers invaded the quiet agrarian village around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, firing sporadically before whisking the woman away.
“The woman who was kidnapped is my uncle’s wife. It happened yesterday,” the source said.One of my elder brothers who stays with my dad was also attacked. He wasn’t killed, but he was seriously injured and is now in the hospital.”
The source, who insisted the attack was carried out by armed men he identified as “Fulani attackers,” said the gunmen struck as his younger brother was returning to the village on a motorcycle.“They went into the village. At that time my younger brother was returning from the village on his motorcycle. That was when they started shooting. Everybody fled, and they took my father’s younger brother’s wife away,” the source added.According to the source, only Rukayat was taken, and the abductors have since contacted the family, demanding a N100 million ransom.
“We took my brother to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital yesterday, but the doctors were on strike. Since the government hospital staff were unavailable, we had to move my brother to a private hospital,” the source said.
Kwara State has become a flashpoint for over three weeks now as bandits seem to have shifted their attention to the state after the first attack last month on a CAC church in Eruku. Following the increase in insecurity in the country, President Tinubu declared a national security emergency to address the situation
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