Help! Militants Have Been Invading, Killing Men, Raping Women – Ibafo Community Cries Out

 

Residents of Halleluyah Quaters in the Ibafo area of Ogun State have been thrown into mourning after some gunmen attacked the community and killed an 85-year-old Islamic cleric, Kareem Olaiya.

During the two hours raid of houses in the community on Monday, a landlord, Scott Odum, was also abducted after his property was looted.

One of his children, who begged the gunmen not to take him away, was hit with the butt of a gun.
A Punch correspondent, who visited the community on
Monday, saw Kareem’s corpse where it was laid in a room, as sympathisers thronged the house.
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Family members, who were just learning about the incident, broke down in tears, as cries of sorrow filled the air.

The footprints of the suspected militants were still visible in some of the places where they operated when Punch Metro visited.

Although the attack reportedly occurred around 2am, as of 12pm when our correspondent left, no security agent had visited the community.

Punch Metro observed some policemen sitting near an armoured tank marked, F-SARS, in front of the Ibafo Police Station, guzzling beer from bottles in three crates.

The policemen dropped the empty bottles in a spot close to the armoured tank.

A resident, Bode, who said four of the gunmen attacked his apartment, explained that they ordered him to lie down as they ransacked his room.