MARAUDERS UNLEASH TERROR ON MOTORISTS ALONG ILESA-IFE-IBADAN, AS GUNMEN ABDUCT SURGEON

The bandits at  about 6:45 p.m, blocked the road around Ikoyi town, on the Ilesha-Ife-Ibadan Expressway  and some of them  jumped  out from the trailer and started shooting sporadically, resulting in the ‘death’ of many passengers, as well as number of them seriously injured.

Penpushing further reports that, Adegbenro Adebanjo, Deputy Registrar of Federal University of Technology, Akure, narrated on his facebook wall how his wife and son managed to escape the attack on Sunday night.

“The call came in around 7:30 p.m on Sunday, May 5, 2019…Daddy, daddy, marauders suspected to be herdsmen attacked the vehicle my mummy and my brother were travelling in. The caller, who is my first son, explained that according to information gleaned from his brother, who managed to escape with his phone, the marauders targeted the travellers on the highway. From what I was able to piece together, it was a clinical operation by professionals’.

 “Mayhem ensued as vehicles rammed into one another while occupants exited through windows and other openings in a desperate dash for safety in the bush. The marauders who spoke in Hausa unleashed mayhem on the hapless travellers, demanding money and other valuables. They pursued those who fled deep into the bush beating and harassing them in the process, while shooting continuously to show that they meant business’.

“Some twenty minutes after help came through the Police who engaged the marauders in a shootout and succeeded in forcing them to beat a hasty retreat. Mercifully, most of the travellers including my wife and son who were bruised and battered both physically and psychologically live to tell the tale of the harrowing experience”,Adebanjo stated

Penpushing further reports that, on the kidnapped  Professor, the universities authorities  has since confirmed and as at the time of filing this report the abductors were yet to reach out to his family or the Obafemi Awolowo University(OAU) authorities.

Meanwhile, Osun State Police Command Public Relations Officer Folashade Odoro, confirmed the incident, adding that a report of the kidnap had been officially made to the police while investigation on the incident had commenced.