The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has condemned last Saturday’s attack by terrorists in army uniforms on a farm in Ipapo, Oke-Ogun, Oyo State, to kidnap four people at gunpoint. Nigeria
A statement signed by the organisation’s National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi, stated that the circumstances surrounding the attack and how the hoodlums were able to escape with their victims, were further justifications for allowing security outfits set up by state governments to be equipped with requisite weapons.
On the same Saturday, Osun State Police spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola, disclosed that Chief Oladepo Asaolu, the Babaloja of Ora-Igbomina in Oke-Ila Local Council of the state, who was kidnapped on October 5, 2022 in his farm, was found dead in a bush close to the town. “Back to the Iseyin-Ipapo kidnap incident, Chairman of the Farm Settlement Association, Mr. Rasheed Adedokun Adepoju, said that the gunmen were dressed in army camouflage with high grade weapons. A top officer of the local security outfit, Amotekun, who was coordinating security in the area but chose to remain anonymous, said that they got to the place in good time to rescue the victims but could not do so because the attackers carried sophisticated weapons, including AK-47.
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