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Operatives of Oyo State Security Network Agency comprising Amotekun Corps collaborating with Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN) early Thursday morning nabbed six suspected bandits with 183 cows at Kajola local government of the state.

In another development 5 bandits were equally arrested in Saki East and handed over the Police in the area on the same day.

The suspected bandits, according to Amotekun Commandant in Oyo state, Col Olayinka Olayanju (rtd), were arrested along Okeho-Ilua and Okeho – Iseyin road at about 4am during a joint routine patrol on two separate routes within the local government area.

He said the suspected bandits were arrested in separate incidents following encounters at two illegally mounted road blocks after hot pursuit as the bandits were trying to escape from the scene to evade arrest.

“The bandits whose modus operandi is to pretend as herdsmen in the day and violently rob innocent passengers on the highways at night were caught with 183 cows, weapons and a total sum of N268, 470.00,” he said.

By Amotekun and other non state actors
Col Olayanju in a statement gave names of the arrested suspected bandits as Awali Atine, Ibrahim Abu, Shuaib Balau, Ibrahim Musa, Abdullah Masika and Umar Aliu Masika (All of Bororo Fulani ethnic group).

The Amotekun commandant said Amotekun operatives were on the trail of other suspected bandits that escaped from the scene during the arrest, saying, “we are still on the trail of others who managed to escape from the scene.”

He said the arrested bandits have been handed over ” to the Nigeria Police authority in Okeho divisional headquarters alongside the 183 herds, weapons and money found in their possession for further investigation.

According to the statement, the names of the arrested bandits are: Awali Atine, Ibrahim Abu, Shuaib Balau, Ibrahim Musa, Abdullah Masika and Umar Aliu Masika who were all Bororo Fulani ethnic group..

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has assured residents of the State that his administration will continue to ensure that all Lagosians have access to quality healthcare irrespective of their socio-economic status.

He gave the commitment on Wednesday during the commissioning of Blood Transfusion Service Office, Oxygen Plant and Oxygen Triage Centre and ground-breaking of Doctors’ 24-unit staff quarters at Gbagada General Hospital in Lagos.

Governor Sanwo-Olu said the three critical health facilities and state-of-the-art equipment are vital projects that will scale up his administration’s most recent achievements in the health sector to further enhance healthcare service delivery to people of Lagos State.

He said provision of quality healthcare that guarantees comfort and longevity is a fundamental pillar of his administration’s T.H.E.M.E.S developmental agenda, adding that his government will continue to implement audacious reforms in the health sector because the continued wellbeing of Lagosians is non-negotiable.

“As we prepare to celebrate the second anniversary of this Administration, we are more determined than ever before to raise the standard and quality of our healthcare system to meet the healthcare needs of all Lagosians.

“We will continue to ensure that all Lagosians have access to quality healthcare irrespective of their socio-economic status. Although there is still so much to be done, I am proud of the considerable progress we have made in the last two years,” he said.

Governor Sanwo-Olu noted that one of the most outstanding lessons from the coronavirus pandemic is the need to build stronger and more resilient healthcare systems that will stand the test of time and also lead to improved patient care.

He said: “The Gbagada Oxygen and Triage Center being commissioned today (Wednesday) is an essential part of our COVID-19 Management Response Strategy and one of the 10 Permanent Triage and Oxygen Centers we have constructed across the State to provide swift Emergency Oxygen Therapy to those who require it.

“Each of these centers is equipped with beds, oxygen concentrators, thermometers, drugs, and consumables. The centers are managed by qualified medical personnel who have previously worked at the isolation centers across the State.

“The Blood Transfusion Service Office is also a critical facility that will enhance the capacity of our medical personnel to manage emergency situations that require blood transfusion. With this new facility and through voluntary blood donation, we will increase our capacity to meet the estimated 220,000 units of blood required for a population of over 22 million people.”

Governor Sanwo-Olu also commended the leadership and staff of the Lagos State Infrastructure Assets Management Agency (LASIAMA) for successfully coordinating and supervising the construction and installation of the Oxygen Plant donated by the Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation, NNPC/TUPNI and partners.

He also appreciated the management of NNPC and Chevron for donating a two storey-building comprising 24 units of apartments, which will serve as residences for doctors.

Speaking at the event, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said his ministry is working systematically to rehabilitate Gbagada General Hospital and other hospitals in the State and build new hospitals.

He said with the building of the headquarter of the blood transfusion center in Gbagada General Hospital, there won’t be need for the State to invest in any temporary facility for blood transfusion to address the issue of shortage of blood in Lagos, adding that the Staff Quarters is very important to make medical personnel comfortable and retard the brain drain out of Lagos and Nigeria.

Also, the Managing Director, Total Upstream Companies in Nigeria, Mr. Mike Sangster, who was represented by his deputy, Engr. Victor Bandele, commended the leadership shown by the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration in combating and containing the COVID-19 pandemic.

He said the Oxygen Plant is expected to produce an equivalent of 100 bottles of oxygen per day, adding that it is designed to run for 20 hours per day.

ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that an hotelier and other people that were abducted in the community on Saturday have been released by their abductors.

It was learnt that they regained their freedom on Tuesday evening after meeting the demands of their abductors.

Last Saturday, Mr Oyedokun and others were abducted on their Hotel behind CAC primary school along Lagbedu road Ogbomoso.

The abductors had demanded N32million from the family to secure their release but the amount paid was not confirmed.

Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command, Mr Adewale Osifeso when contacted, confirmed the release of the victims on Wednesday.

Osifeso replied to a message of enquiry that, “Yes, they have been released, please.”

The Department of State Service (DSS) on Monday interrogated leader of a Yoruba socio-cultural group, Kiriji Heritage Defenders, Dr Ademola Ekundayo, over planned protests by secessionists in Osun.

It was gathered Ekundayo was invited to the DSS Command following speculations some Yoruba groups under the aegis of Yoruba Self-Determination group were planning secession protests following the disrupted rally by security operatives in Ibadan on April 17, 2021.

He was said to have been interrogated at the DSS headquarters in Osogbo for about four hours before he was released.

When contacted, Ekundayo confirmed to The Nation he was invited by DSS noting: “We are not criminals or collaborating with any criminal group.

“The security men are just being proactive. We are not secessionists in Kiriji Heritage Defenders.

“The decision for the rally to hold in Osun is beyond our group. Other notable groups will take that decision when the time comes. Our major preoccupation is security across Yoruba borders.”

The Oyo State Government, on Monday, says it has set up a Special Joint Security Post, set up at Mamu village – a border between Ibadan and Ijebu Ode in Ogun state is to complement efforts of the security operatives in nipping insecurity, especially issues of kidnapping, in the bud.

Gov Seyi Makinde, who made this disclosure while on inspection tour to the border area, declared that the Ibadan-IjebuOde road had been in the news recently for kidnapping of travellers plying the route.

He said the Mamu Joint Security Post was set up to secure the entry and exit points in the state, adding that the Mamu post was a pilot project that would soon be replicated in all the borders with other states.

According to the governor, there is CCTV camera at the post; that is being monitored from the Security Control Room in Ibadan, “So if there is anything going on here security personnel can quickly be alerted and deal with the situation appropriately.

“For us, if we know people coming into the state we can trace them or if any crime is committed within the state and the criminals want to escape from the state’ we can activate the process, whereby they can be apprehended at the exit point here.”

Makinde assured the people of the state of his administration’s committment towards provision of adequate security of lives and property.

He added that his administration, in collaboration with the security agencies in the state, were working round the clock to ensure that residents of the state were secured.

Heads of security agencies in the state; Ngozi Onadeko – Oyo State Police Commissioner and Iskilu Akinsanya – Oyo State Commadant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps(NSCDC) took part in the inspection tour.

Gov Makinde later handed over nine patrol pickup vans to the Police and NSCDC; five pickup vans for the Police.

It has just been confirmed to ODUDUWA NEWS today that hoodlums had attacked Lagos State University LASU, injured many people and destroyed several vehicles at sight. Below are pictures for photostory.

A Fulani man identified as Ibrahim Momodu has been reportedly kidnapped by gunmen in Abola Village, Idere, Ibarapa Central Local Government, Oyo State.

A brother to the victim, Usman Momodu Reported that the gunmen suspected to be bororo herdsmen abducted his brother around 11am on Thursday. He said that some vigilante operatives and Villagers had, on Thurday, apprehended two fulani who are suspected to be Kidnappers in Abola Village, Those fulanis came to buy drinks in Multitudes and Villagers asked them to provide Their identity, they claimed they were herders and Villagers followed them to where they claimed their cows were kept but unfortunately, they didn’t see any traces of their cow. They also discovered that Ibrahim was Kidnapped

Ibrahim was asked to follow them because of interpretation of Language, When they didn’t see their cows for hours, Ibrahim was abducted

The remaining part of suspected kidnappers retaliated back by kidnapping Ibrahim. Through phone Conversation, they were demanding the release of their man before they could release Ibrahim

“One of the kidnappers was speaking fluent Yoruba while others were bororo”

The arrested kidnapper had, in the late hours of Thursday, been transferred to Police Headquarter, Ibadan”

Speaking to the Pressmen This morning, the head of Abola village, Baale Sunday confirmed the authenticity of the incident, he said the case has been Reported to DPO Ibarapa Central Igboora and they are working and tracking the number to get the location of those people

The brother to the victim said when they called him this morning, they are demanding for 5 million Before they can release his brother

He urged the government and the security agencies worthy enough to be mentioned to intervene and find lasting Solution to this Menace because it’s becoming unbearable.

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Saturday joined other Nigerians in condemning the killing of three of the abducted students of Greenfield University, Kaduna.

He said the murder of the students was another confirmation that the country is at war.

He asked President Muhammadu Buhari to seek help to deal with the situation.

Soyinka, in a statement on the development, said: “This nation is at war, yet we continue to pretend that these are mere birth-pangs of a glorious entity. They are death throes. Vultures and undertakers hover patiently but with full confidence.

“Not for the first time, what many hoped was a Natural Law of Limitations has been contemptuously, defiantly breached. We need to remind ourselves of hideous precedents.

“We must remember Chibok. And Dapchi. And numerous antecedents and after, unpublicized, or soon relegated to the sump of collective amnesia. The wages of impunity never diminish. On the contrary, they distend.

“Again, this is no new counseling, but of course, the dog that will get lost no longer heeds the hunter’s whistle. I envy no one the task ahead, terminating the toxic harvest of past derelictions.

“Blame laying is for later. Right now is the question of – what needs to be done, and done urgently. We keep avoiding the inevitable, but that very unthinkable now hammers brutishly on our gates, the blood ransom arrogantly insatiable.

“The dogs of war stopped merely baying years ago. Again and again they have sunk their fangs into the jugular of this nation. The plague called COVID has met its match on the earth of some nation space once known as Nigeria.

“To this government we repeat the public cry: Seek Help. Stop Improvising with Human Lives. Youth – that is, the future – should not serve as Ritual Offering on the altar of a failing State.”