Suspected Bandits Kill 2 Soldiers In Ogun

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have allegedly killed two serving personnel of the Nigerian Army in the Mowe/Ibafo axis of Obafemi-Owode local government area of Ogun State.

The bandits were said to have opened fire on the Army personnel in the early hours of Monday in what many eyewitnesses described as a surprise attack.

Though details of the attack still remained sketchy as at the time of filling this report, LEADERSHIP, however, gathered that a viral video in circulation clearly shows a blood-soaked corpse of an Army personnel clad in camouflage being evacuated in a pick-up van with plain-clothe security operatives suspected to be police officers and other civilian sitting closed to the corpse in open the van.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the Ogun State Police Command, ‘Seyi Babaseyi, denied knowledge of such incident either in Abeokuta or any other part of the State.

But, when contacted on phone, the spokesperson of the Army Public Relations Demand (APRD) at the 35 Artillery Brigade Command in Alamala Barracks, Abeokuta, Major Idereghi Samuel, confirmed the attack on soldiers.

Idereghi, who stressed that he was yet to get the details of the attack, however, promised to get back to journalists as soon as he obtained the details and proper location of where the incident occurred.