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‘We ran for hours’; 2 schoolgirls kidnapped in Ogun escaped to Oyo
*Alaafin reunites victims with families
Two students of Odewale Community High School, Ojurin Agbado in Ogun State, kidnapped on Friday on their way to school, have narrated how they escaped from the den of the kidnappers and found themselves in Oyo town, Oyo State.
The girls, 18-year-old Zainab Rafiu and 16-year-old Kehinde Adeogun explained that a gang of three hooded men parked beside them and ordered them to enter the car at gunpoint with AK-47 rifles. They said from that point they can not explain how they found themselves in the thick forest.
Narrating their experiences, one of the girls, Kehinde said the kidnappers tied them to separate trees and threatened to kill them.
“The kidnappers spoke to us in Yoruba and on getting to the forest tied us separately with ropes after which they left us and went away.
“One of the kidnappers speaking in Yoruba said that our lives will soon end inside the bush.
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“I struggled to untie myself with my teeth, after which I untied my friend and we started running. We ran for more than two hours inside the forest
“We finally got to the main road but we didn’t know where we were.
“When we asked passersby, they told us the road was an expressway in Oyo town.
“I felt relieved because I am an indigene of Oyo, but I don’t know how I could locate our family house.
“We saw a food vendor’s shop and stopped over, I begged for a mobile phone to contact my parents in Abeokuta and to let them know our whereabouts.
“The food vendor gave us her phone, I called my parents and Zainab’s parents. My father sent a relative’s number that I should call the person to come and pick us”.
It was gathered that the relative, identified as Alhaji Ogunsola, picked the girls up and took them to the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III.
The monarch then ordered that the Directorate of State Service be informed of the development, while the abducted children are given food, a place to refresh and given medical attention due to the traumatic experience they had in the hands of the kidnappers.
Vanguard learned that the monarch, had on Sunday, reunited the two girls to the younger brother to Kehinde’s father, to take them back to the Agbado crossing area of Ogun state.
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200,000 repentant terrorists surrender, drop arms in North East – CDS
200,000 repentant terrorists surrender, drop arms in North East – CDS
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has disclosed that about 200,000 repentant terrorists have so far dropped their arms and surrendered to troops in the North East, noting that the twin strategy of kinetic and non-kinetic operations was responsible for this achievement.
The CDS made this known at the Security and Justice Symposium organised by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) in collaboration with the British High Commission, which began at the National Counterterrorism Centre in Abuja on Tuesday.
He disclosed that the theme of the symposium, ”Securing Peace, Ensuring Justice, Protection, Conduct, and Accountability,” speaks volumes about the deluge of security challenges the armed forces and security agencies are facing.
His words, “All the challenges we are facing today have to do with fairness, equity, justice, and accountability.
“There will not be peace without justice, equity, fairness, and accountability. In our operations, we are conducting both kinetic and non-kinetic strategies, which have to a large extent yielded significant successes, and we want to particularly thank the National Security Adviser for his great support in this regard.
“Nigeria is going through so many challenges, and we feel we’re able to address this, and everybody has a sense of belonging. A lot of the security challenges we are having, we are sure, will go down. I want to thank the National Security Advisor for all the support he’s given us, both the kinetic and the non-kinetic.
“We have said it; the kinetic aspect is just less than 30%. The non-kinetic has a lot to play. The non-kinetic, because when you have democracy, people must have the evidence of democracy. As long as it tells people to sleep well and be peaceful, and they are hungry, their children cannot eat, and all this creates more problems.
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“The issue of informants. We have to look at how we tackle this issue of informants. Because these are the people who have created the issue.
200,000 repentant terrorists surrender, drop arms in North East – CDS
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Robbers kill two members in shoot-out with Delta police
Robbers kill two members in shoot-out with Delta police
The spokesperson for the police in Delta State, SP Bright Edafe, has confirmed the death of two robbery suspects in the state.
Mr Edafe, who disclosed this to journalists on Tuesday in Warri, said that the deceased were killed from the bullets shot by their gang members.
According to him, the incident occurred on Wednesday at Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of the state.
Mr Edafe explained that the deceased were leading the police surveillance team attached to the Ekpan Division to their hideout when they were caught during a shoot-out.
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“The suspects were arrested at Effurun roundabout with a bag containing 57 live cartridges and other items. They were leading the surveillance team to their hideout at Warri/Sapele road when their gang members, on sighting the vehicle of the police team, engaged them in a shootout.During the gun duel, the arrested suspects that were leading the police team were fatally wounded by the gun shot of their colleagues. The two injured suspects were taken to the hospital and later died while receiving treatment,” he said.
Mr Edafe said that items recovered from the hoodlums hideout included: one English pump action gun, one locally made cut-to-size gun and eight live cartridges.
Others were: six iPhones, Smart phones and a Rolex wrist watch.
He said that the command had intensified manhunt on the fleeing members of the gang.
Robbers kill two members in shoot-out with Delta police
(NAN)
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