INSECURITY:UNKNOWN GUNMEN KIDNAP FOUR IBADAN BOUND TRAVELLERS IN EKITI

Some yet to be identified gunmen have kidnapped four travelers along the Irele Ekiti-Oke Ako highway in the Ekiti Ajoni Local Council Develop Some ment Area (LCDA).

The latest hijacking is one of a series of roadside hijackings in which some victims were killed.

Local community sources told reporters that the victims, who were reportedly returning to Ibadan, the capital of Oyo state, after attending an event in Kogi last weekend, were abducted around noon on Sunday.

They are said to have been held up by armed assailants on the road between Irele-Ekiti and Oke Ako. The kidnappers took their victims to the forest.

A reliable source said: “The four abducted people were returning from an event in Kogi to Ibadan along Irele Ekiti and Oke Ako Road.

“We have not heard from the gunmen since yesterday (Sunday), and we hope they will contact their families, possibly for ransom.”

Confirming the incident, a community leader in Irele-Ekiti, Kehinde Abejide, condemned the kidnapping and said the incessant attacks by armed men in the area were becoming worrying.

Abejide urged the new governor, Biodun Oyebanji, to partner with the military to help combat the threat in the state.

“These four people were returning to Ibadan when they were attacked and kidnapped on Sunday morning, and we haven’t heard from them since they were taken into the forest.

When contacted, Sunday Abutu, the spokesman for the police command in Ekiti, who confirmed the incident, said he would inform the media as soon as details of the incident reached his office.

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