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15 Killed As Militants Raid Ogun Community by Nobody: 3:32pm On Jun 19, 2016
At least 15 people were killed in Imushin community in the Ogijo area of Ogun state during a raid by suspected Niger Delta militants.
According to PUNCH, about 100 militants, armed with guns and cutlasses, stormed the community around 11pm on Friday and embarked on a killing spree.
Among the 15 killed was a technician, Waheed Buhari, aka Yah Alau, who was shot dead in front of his room.
One of his children, Mariam, sustained bullet wounds.
A travel agent, Oladele Ogundare, was said to be returning home in his car, when the rampaging militants opened fire on his car and killed him.
Another resident, Umoru, who was said to be eating noodles, was chased, hacked and shot to death, along with a friend, Danladi.
A mosque in the community, was reportedly attacked and a Muslim cleric killed.
Two hotels were said to have also been raided and their customers robbed and injured.
More than 25 shops in the community were looted by the militants.
Many of the residents, who begged not to be identified, said the militants had threatened to return to continue the killing.
A resident said the assailants were suspected to be Ijaw youths involved in pipeline vandalism.
She explained that they were on a revenge mission as some operatives of the State Anti-Robbery Squad had killed two of the vandals earlier on Friday.
“The whole thing began around 4pm on Friday. I was at the backyard of the hotel, cutting some weed when some SARS officers came in. They were shooting and ordering people to stop moving. There was confusion in the hotel,” she said.
“The SARS officials did not leave until after three hours. They killed two of the vandals and took away the owner of the hotel, a woman.
“Around 10pm, I went to urinate when I saw so many hoodlums coming from the waterside down the road. They carried sophisticated weapons and when they got here, they started shooting. They blew off the hotel windows and shot people dead. They killed two men here in Lapete village.”
A friend of Waheed, the electrician killed in Oke Muti, said the Ilorin, Kwara state indigene had tried to shut his door when the militants killed him.
“He was going to urinate when the militants started firing. He tried to quickly shut his door, but it did not jam. They opened fire on him at the door step and did not stop until he dropped dead,” the friend said.
“Not satisfied, they entered his room and sprayed everywhere with bullets. Waheed’s child, Mariam, that was in the room was hit. She is still at the hospital.”
He added that the police recovered 15 corpses in the community.
The widow of the travel agent killed in the Ereko area of the community said her husband, Oladele, who worked on Victoria Island, had left for work in his car on Friday morning without any foreboding.
“He gave me money for foodstuffs after dropping me off in front of a bank where I wanted to do a transaction. By 6pm, we spoke and he asked me to prepare rice for him that night,” she said.
“By 10pm, I called his line; it rang and he didn’t pick. I tried it again at 12am, still no response. I called his mother by 6am that I had not been able to reach him on his two telephone lines and she promised to call as well. She also couldn’t get to him.
“It was this morning (Saturday) that I saw a crowd of people in my house. They said he was a short distance from home when he was shot dead. I can’t believe this because we have barely spent a year in this community and this has never happened before.”
Some customers at the Catcher Hotel were lucky to have escaped with their lives.
However, the hoodlums carted away all the valuables in the hotel and vandalised all the electronic gadgets.
A soldier, who was not in uniform at the time of the attack, said the vandals cut him with a cutlass and smashed bottles on his head.
“I had entered the beer parlour in the hotel when the militants came in. They were about 200. At first, I thought they were having a festival until they ordered all of us to lie flat on the ground,” he said.
“They asked for my two phones and when I gave them one, they became angry. One of them cut my head with a machete and followed it with a bottle. I was drenched in blood. The militants had sophisticated weapons that I had never seen before.
“They never asked for money from me and they didn’t search my pocket. If they did, they could have found my ID card and I would have been dead. I wore just a white shirt.”
A disc jockey at the hotel said one of the militants wanted to shoot him dead, but one of them persuaded him against it.
“They were arguing among themselves whether or not to kill me. One said, ‘If you don’t want me to kill him, then let me cut off his leg.’ But his colleague asked him not to. Before I knew it, he had smashed three bottles on my head.
“They went away with my laptop, phones, money and everything I had. They refused to carry away the beers in the hotel. They took only the hard drinks.”
Women in the hotel, who claimed that the militants spent about 30 minutes, said they tortured them with cutlasses and guns.
Muyiwa Adejobi, Ogun state police public relations officer, confirmed the attack, but said only three people were killed.
“Around 11pm at Ereko Community, Ogijo, some hoodlums numbering about 100 invaded the community and started shooting sporadically. Bullets hit one Waheed Buhari and his daughter, Mariam. While Buhari died, the daughter is still at the hospital. Two other unidentified corpses were found, making a total of three deaths,” he said.
“Information from eyewitnesses showed that the hoodlums were militants and they came from the riverine area. But we have not confirmed this, as investigations are ongoing. We are particularly interested in why they came in such a large number.”
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Re: 15 Killed As Militants Raid Ogun Community by Mynd44: 3:52pm On Jun 19, 2016
Re: 15 Killed As Militants Raid Ogun Community by mercyville: 3:55pm On Jun 19, 2016
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Re: 15 Killed As Militants Raid Ogun Community by parklamson: 4:03pm On Jun 19, 2016
Is this how Godwill Akpabio plans to destabilize Southwest peace?

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Re: 15 Killed As Militants Raid Ogun Community by SurefireFashion: 4:06pm On Jun 19, 2016
Paragraph pls
Re: 15 Killed As Militants Raid Ogun Community by ogba20: 4:29pm On Jun 19, 2016
parklamson:
Is this how Godwill Akpabio plans to destabilize Southwest peace?
what I noticed is that you are not cultured and you are below 18.TATA.

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Re: 15 Killed As Militants Raid Ogun Community by idensko(m): 4:52pm On Jun 19, 2016
Now the SW will have their share
Re: 15 Killed As Militants Raid Ogun Community by MXrep: 9:02pm On Jun 19, 2016
Thread is deserted as usual
Re: 15 Killed As Militants Raid Ogun Community by RZArecta(m): 10:02pm On Jun 19, 2016
cheesy the plan to make Nigeria a pariah nation by evil forces just went up a notch, somebody just had to blame "Niger Delta militants" for crimes perpetrated by local criminals. Next mayhem will be committed by IPOB youths according to my prediction. Their plan is to destroy our unity via tribal hatred and skirmishes because of our massive economic potentials and resources.


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Re: 15 Killed As Militants Raid Ogun Community by Eastlink(m): 11:10pm On Jun 19, 2016
RZArecta:
cheesy the plan to make Nigeria a pariah nation by evil forces just went up a notch, somebody just had to blame "Niger Delta militants" for crimes perpetrated by local criminals. Next mayhem will be committed by IPOB youths according to my prediction. Their plan is to destroy our unity via tribal hatred and skirmishes because of our massive economic potentials and resources.


ARGUE WITH YOUR ANCESTORS
When I saw armed with Cutlass, I knew the news was as fake as the source itself.
Make I clap small for my SW brothers, them try sha for this one. Trying to paint the militants as well as the Ijaws in a bad light.

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Re: 15 Killed As Militants Raid Ogun Community by youngeagle(m): 12:04am On Jun 20, 2016
When did Omo Nile cult group turn Naija delter militants...militants are rich to carry cutlass,they go will missiles.

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