August 2, 2016
The first sign of disquiet, which a first-time visitor may encounter in the Ikorodu area as he approaches the Igbo-Olomu and Isawo communities, is the ubiquitous presence of a dark green Lagos Task Force vehicle stationed at a major turning.

During a visit to the area on Monday morning, our correspondent observed that heavily armed military personnel had taken different positions on the road, screening and frisking commuters. There was an uneasy calm around the junction. The silence contrasted sharply with the usual cacophony arising from buying and selling in the area, as well as the sound of speeding commercial motorcycles, popularly called okada.

Beyond the junction, the plains and valleys of Igbo Olomu and Isawo, leading to the creeks separating the areas from Arepo in neighbouring Ogun State, also swarmed with soldiers.

It was less than a week after the military started an offensive against suspected pipeline vandals, who had terrorised residents on the coastline, forcing many of them to flee with their families.

But the situation was still far from normal when our correspondent visited some of the communities in the area on Monday. Muti, Elepete, Kajola, Ola Imam and other communities on the flank of Isawo and Igbo Olomu were already deserted. Haunted by endless abductions, rape, armed robbery and deaths, the residents had since abandoned their homes and fled these communities. The few that defiantly chose to stay were seen on Monday nursing the wounds inflicted on them by their tormentors.

One of the residents named Bola Omotunde, a self-employed woman in Kajola community, spoke to our correspondent from a partition on her window. Speaking in a low tone, the mother of three recounted what happened in the community on Sunday.

“It was a terrible experience. Those boys wreaked so much havoc here. We thank God that the government has started dealing with them. Throughout yesterday, the sound of gunshots would not let us sleep. It has been a traumatic experience and my children are not back yet. I paid N10,000 per night in a hotel for three days before a friend took my family in. My children did not write their third term examination before trouble broke out here. Those boys were going from house to house, kidnapping people. I know they will never come back, but it will take time for things to be normal around here,” she said.

But there was no sign of life in Omotunde’s neighbourhood, which was in the Zone A area of Kajola. Not far away from her residents, two men in a block-making factory were busy at work, unperturbed by the deafening silence around them.

One of them, who identified himself as Bello, said some residents had seized the opportunity to construct their houses.

“It is not true that people want to sell their houses. Even if you want to sell, who will buy? What I have noticed is that some residents come in to continue the building of their houses because there was no Omo Onile (land grabbers) to disturb them. You will find artisans working on a few houses between 10am and 3pm. The sites become empty as soon as it is 3.pm. I don’t live here. I live at Ogolonto with my partner. I come here before 10.am and by 4.pm, I start the journey back home to Ogolonto,’’ he said.

At Ola Imam community, the gloom was palpable. As in Kajola, the streets were deserted. This was the community where eight landlords, who volunteered to serve as security men, were slaughtered in one night by marauding pipeline vandals.

A resident, who declined to give his name, said the community would not forget the incident in a while. He berated the government for coming to the aid of the community too late in the day.

“The harm has been done already. Eight landlords in this community were murdered. They were vigilantes who volunteered to keep our community safe from petty thieves. Only one of them was spared because he was nursing his sick child that night. He thought he would be able to join the others, but he slept off. We woke up to the sight of their dead bodies in the morning of the next day.

“No matter what the government is doing now, it cannot bring back those men. Who will compensate their families? We have more widows and fatherless children than ever in the community. One man was kidnapped in his house. I learnt that he paid N5m as ransom. I think this effort of the government is too late,’’ he said.

There was nobody to attend to our correspondent when she visited the homes of some of the landlords on Monday. A female resident, who also declined to give her name, said some women who were raped by the attackers had died of trauma.

“Nobody knew this kind of misfortune could befall this community. Some women were raped right in front of their family members. Do you know that the invaders even used the barrels of their guns to rape the women? Some of the victims died shortly after the acts. We are praying that the government will fight this battle till the end. The soldiers are more concentrated in the Elepete side which is close to the creeks. But we also feel their impact here,” she said.

http://punchng.com/militants-murdered-eight-landlords-one-night-ikorodu-residents/

And these criminals have supporters on this forum and likely members.

Should there be a crackdown, this place will be a good place to investigate.

Typical Yoruba Thugs. -Only a fool will think those killers are Niger Delta Millitants.

You don't win a war by chest beating online,the militants are not online.
Lesson:stop loud mouthing while dragging other tribes into your woes and leave the NA to do their job!

RIP to the deads (innocent victims)

Criminals should be destroyed.

Why rape women

Seriously the military should make sure they finish what they have started.

They cannot afford to do half and leave half.

Those militants should not be allowed to regroup.

This is wickedness.

No single militant should be left alive because their revenge would be terrible.

uupgrade:
[s]Typical Yoruba Thugs. -Only a fool will think those killers are Niger Delta Millitants.[/s]

They may or may not be your brothers but you can't be in ND and be typing crap, take a trip to the creeks around Arepo, Elepete, Igbo Olomu etc to check out the corpses to ascertain the region where the human waste originated from..

Anyway, their identity does not matter, all that matters is that criminal vandals that have been terrorising those communities have been decimated to the point of making regrouping almost impossible....

modath:


They may or may not be your brothers but you can't be in ND and be typing crap, take a trip to the creeks around Arepo, Elepete, Igbo Olomu etc to check out the corpses to ascertain the region where the human waste originated from..

Anyway, their identity does not matter, all that matters is that criminal vandals that have been terrorising those communities have been decimated to the point of making regrouping almost impossible....

I condemn the activities of those wicked militants/vandals but the truth is that the military must make sure they finish this.

The way it is looking those areas might have to be miliotarised for a long time.

I pray the military don't leave because if they do, the rest na story oo.

AgentOrange:


I condemn the activities of those wicked militants/vandals but the truth is that the military must make sure they finish this.

The way it is looking those areas might have to be miliotarised for a long time.

I pray the military don't leave because if they do, the rest na story oo.

Leave ke? Bawo? Ko jo..

Not in the forseeable future.. From feelers, these dregs of the earth have resurfaced in the creeks around Ilaje ,Ese Odo LGs of Ondo state, they won't be at home for long, Armageddon will follow them there...

Still wondering why some people are averse to honest , responsible means of earning a living... Mofos dem.

is owk..rip to the dead if the news is true

Thewrath:
You don't win a war by chest beating online,the militants are not online.
Lesson:stop loud mouthing while dragging other tribes into your woes and leave the NA to do their job!

Shut up....... you love those criminals.

I wonder what took so long for them to deal with these criminals

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Ok. Pity but am not bothered. Kill by the sword, you will surely die by the sword .

Smh for Africa

modath:


Leave ke? Bawo? Ko jo..

Not in the forseeable future.. From feelers, these dregs of the earth have resurfaced in the creeks around Ilaje ,Ese Odo LGs of Ondo state, they won't be at home for long, Armageddon will follow them there...

Still wondering why some people are averse to honest , responsible means of earning a living... Mofos dem.

It's quite unfortunate. They should be classified as terrorist, apprehended and roasted alive. I believe that a better Nigeria would soon emerge.
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uupgrade:
Typical Yoruba Thugs. -Only a fool will think those killers are Niger Delta Millitants.

coward......is dis all u can type frm ur shitgbo flatt brain? so Niger deltas avengers r nw Yorubas abi...I 4 knock ur indonasian head very hard if 4 say I see u.

More reason those criminals should not be spared.

Why kill innocent people for their already wicked activities

They got served in theri own coin. Just painful the government waited that long. Lots of people died before now

Why are Yorubas like this.If it's the Niger Delta I understand their plight and fight for oil but Yorubas wat are they agitating for

Dats a very Bad way 2go....[color=#000000][/color]

And some Ugandans were busy running their worthless mouth.
The Military should continue to kill all the militants.

We'll deal with human rights later.

uupgrade:
Typical Yoruba Thugs. -Only a fool will think those killers are Niger Delta Millitants.

bsbs

I no longer understand when we degenerated to this level in Nigeria. Human lives are currently valueless so to say
Hoping that the security operatives will rise up to the occasion and quell the crisis before Lagos turns to a state of anarchy .
Afterall, this was exactly how it started in Borno state; Bokoharam was treated with kids gloves as at then before
the whole thing went out of hand.
We are currently battling with it as a country