There is currently palpable fear among residents of Yewa community in the Isawo axis of Ikorodu, Lagos, after militants stormed the area in the early hours of Sunday, April 9, 2017 to wreak havoc.
During the gruesome attack by the militants, five policemen and two soldiers were murdered while other residents suffered varying degree of injuries.
InsideMailand gathered that the gallant officers who died during the attack had acted on information of a planned kidnap by the militants in Woodland Estate, Yewa-Isawo. The officers mobilized men to the community to ensure the safety of residents who were already gripped by fear as a result of the planned attack by the militants.
However, the security operatives were killed following a shoot-out between the officers and the militants who laid ambush for the officers.
Speaking on the incident, the Chairman, Community Development Community (CDC), Ikorodu West, Alhaja Kudirat Olukoga-Dalemo told InsideMainland that the residents were gradually adjusting to life without attacks before the militants struck Sunday morning. “We have lived in peace for few months now before the attack by the militants at midnight. Although there was tension few weeks ago after residents sighted the militants on the waterways, we never envisaged the attack because of police presence and regular patrol in the community. People adjusted to leaving their homes when the day is clear and return before dusk.”
She continued that “the kidnap attempt was foiled by the police although people were injured during the attack. Seven people died and they include five policemen and two soldiers who were mobilized to the area to protect us. The others that were injured were rushed to the hospital where they are currently receiving treatment.”
Another resident who preferred anonymity told InsideMainland that the militants had continued to strike fear in the residents who were recently returning to the area following the spike in attacks in 2016. “The height of the attacks was in 2016 when the militants strike with reckless abandon. If only you knew how they treated us in the past. The militants once visited a neighbor who watched them kill his livestock like goats and chickens in broad day light. They dared him to report to the police because they threatened to hurt his family if he did. They turned us to strangers in our homes and they became the landlords. The attacks got to a point that we couldn’t do anything because the security agencies failed to act.”

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Lalasticlala, mynd44, Seun

Hmm

afonja land.

Very good one.

For human beings with blood and flesh who sacrifice their lives and comforts for the peace of a nation to be wasted by miscreants is the least that should be condoned.

May The Almighty God give the families of the departed officers in this and all other similar terrorist encounters in the NE the fortitude to bear the irreversible loss.

Our security agents really lack experience and training,five security personels killed and yet no single militant was killed in return not to talk of arresting any,that is a morale boost for this criminals.The only thing they knw is to molest innocent citizens and collect bribe frm them,as for the soldiers,their own is to torture and brutalize innocent ppl and call them bloody civilians and yet this are the same civillians they could not face in gun battle.Who is nw the bloody civillian and who is the soldier?

.Militancy, Agitation, kidnappings, Fraud and all manner of social vices



These are what happens in a country where injustice, corruption, nepotism lack of social amenities, common wealth being hijacked by privileged few
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Angeleena:
afonja land.

those militants are flat heads from home of "vampire"

Pieromania:
Our security agents really lack experience and training,five security personels killed and yet no single militant was killed in return not to talk of arresting any,that is a morale boost for this criminals.The only thing they knw is to molest innocent citizens and collect bribe frm them,as for the soldiers,their own is to torture and brutalize innocent ppl and call them bloody civilians and yet this are the same civillians they could not face in gun battle.Who is nw the bloody civillian and who is the soldier?

Do you really understand the word "ambush"? What level of training are you insinuating? Training against ambush? Everyone will really appreciate if you commiserates with security agencies on their loss rather than say things you really don't know about. By the way, most of the American, British and other their collation partners causalities during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan were killed in ambush. Maybe the Americans don't really know how to train their soldiers too!!!