Suspected kidnappers have abducted John Ezra, a police officer attached to Lade Division in Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State, along the Lade-Patigi road on Thursday while returning from an official duty.
Penpushing reports that sources said suspected terrorists were operating in the area when the young officer was kidnapped, and this came amid the claim by President Tinubu that Nigeria is winning against terrorism and banditry.
“He was returning from Patigi General Hospital, where he joined other security personnel to guard the facility,” a resident whose name has been withheld for security concerns said.
Penpushing further reports that the Kwara State Police Command Public Relations Officer Ejire-Adeyemi Adetoun as at the time of filing this report said the command don’t have details about Ezra’s abduction yet.
The record has it that at least three local government areas—Patigi, Edu and Ifelodun—in Kwara State have been under incessant attacks by terrorists locally known as bandits, with more than 30 villages have been affected in Patigi and Edu alone.
Penpushing also reports that residents explained that the recent attacks started in May when the terrorists killed a pharmacist who resisted abduction in Gbado village, near Patigi town, and barely a month later, they invaded an artisanal miner’s residence in Lile village, killing him and his son.
The Kwara state in same vein suffers cross-border terrorism as al-Qaeda linked groups such as Ansaru and JNIM infiltrate the state’s ungoverned areas through forest reserves linking Nigeria to Benin.
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