Bandits kill NSCDC officer, abduct daughter, others in Kogi attack

Gunmen person killed a unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mr Ayo Olukotun, and abducted his girl on with respective different residents during an onslaught connected Odo-Ere, the office of Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State.

Residents said the onslaught occurred astatine astir 8:30 p.m. on Monday when the gunmen stormed the community, firing sporadically and causing panic among residents, galore of whom fled for safety. They added that amid the confusion, the attackers reportedly forced their mode into the residence of the NSCDC officer, changeable him, and abducted his girl and different victims into a adjacent forest.

A assemblage root said Olukotun was rushed to infirmary soon aft the onslaught but was confirmed dormant connected arrival.

The president of Yagba West Local Government Area, Tosin Olokun, who besides serves arsenic Chairman of the Kogi State section of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), said the decease of the NSCDC serviceman was a achy nonaccomplishment to his family, the Odo-Ere assemblage and the full section authorities area.

“We are profoundly saddened by this unfortunate incident. On behalf of the authorities and radical of Yagba West, I widen my heartfelt condolences to the household of Mr. Ayo Olukotun, the radical of Odo-Ere and each those affected by this attack,” helium add...