Terrorists disguised as soldiers, kidnap 25 travellers in Kogi

Terrorists disguised as soldiers, kidnap 25 travellers in Kogi

A Michael Itodo recounted to the Whistler the harrowing experience of kidnappers masquerading as soldiers who seized 25 passengers journeying for the yuletide in his community.

According to Itodo, the distressing incident took place last week in Ofante, situated within the Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State.

According to him, “The men, wearing military camouflage, mounted a road block and were conducting stop-and-search operations on vehicles plying the route.

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They were confidently carrying out their operations as if they were genuinely posted there.

“The funny thing was that they were cordially interacting with the villagers. Our traditional ruler even gave them some gifts to commend them for securing our place.”

He said on the second day of their operations, they struck on their victims.

“They successfully asked passengers of two buses to disembark,” Itodo said, adding that, “Then they whisked them away. We have a vigilante group that is effective, but the manner the kidnappers conducted themselves made no one suspect them as kidnappers. I heard that the victims were made to pay huge sums of ransom to regain their freedom. Our local security network has been re-energised to avoid a recurrence of such ugly incident.”

Terrorists disguised as soldiers, kidnap 25 travellers in Kogi