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The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Sunday warned that bandits may attempt to block the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in July or August, urging security agencies to remain vigilant.

Ayodele spoke during a Sunday service at the church’s headquarters, and the video of his remarks was later shared on his official TikTok account.

“Ibadan. Lagos-Ibadan Express Road. July/August, I do not know the precise time. Bandits will block the road. Lagos-Ibadan Express Road. They will block the road. So the security agencies should note this,” the cleric said.

The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is one of Nigeria’s busiest highways, linking Lagos with several South-West states and the northern part of the country.


As of the time of filing this report, neither the Nigeria Police Force nor the Federal Government had issued any official security alert relating to the cleric’s prediction.

Recall Ayodele in a recent statement criticised the Federal Government over the country’s security situation, accusing it of failing in its constitutional responsibility to protect citizens.

His latest claim also comes weeks after suspected bandits abducted dozens of pupils and teachers during coordinated attacks on schools in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, underscoring growing concerns over the spread of kidnapping and banditry into parts of the South-West

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TemplarLandry:
This man always shoots blanks with his prophecies; none of his prophecies has ever come to pass.

The God I know doesn't lie.

TopBanter:
Indeed. He is doing too much. How can bandits achieve what he says? FG will simply deploy armed forces personnel to neutralise them. The strenght of bandits and terrorists lie in attacking and disappearing into forests or to Mali, Chad, Niger Republic, Burkina Faso etal.

They cannot hijack a major Nigerian expressway facilitating commerce and travel because the Nigerian armed forces remain far superior to them.

BigYash:
You just dey speak English

E go happen,and fg will do nothing. I repeat nothing. The bandits and fg work hand in hand. If not, crippling the activities of bandits it's a minor issue. Cut their source of supply of food,arms and refueling, and see banditry becoming a thing of the past.

Their sponsors are in government. Until those sponsors are dead, banditry lives on.

lawani:
The only advantage the bandits have over the armed forces is that their exact location is not known

BigYash:
You just dey speak English

E go happen,and fg will do nothing. I repeat nothing. The bandits and fg work hand in hand. If not, crippling the activities of bandits it's a minor issue. Cut their source of supply of food,arms and refueling, and see banditry becoming a thing of the past.

Their sponsors are in government. Until those sponsors are dead, banditry lives on.

TemplarLandry:
This man always shoots blanks with his prophecies; none of his prophecies has ever come to pass.

The God I know doesn't lie.

Brendaniel:

You guys can so deceive yourselves, the main advantage they have is that there is a compromised president in power who has brokered deal with them not to go after them, and also run his government with their saboteurs intact in his government...