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Afenifere warned that the growing violence in the South-West was an indication that terrorists might be expanding to the region from the North.
There were at least three separate cases of kidnapping on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway last month. In one of the cases, a former Deputy Vice- Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof. Adigun Agbaje, and two students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic , Abeokuta, were kidnapped and only released after payment of ransoms.
The statement read: “Reports also had it that suspected Fulani bandits attacked travellers on October 27, 2022, abducting five persons and killing several others. Two days after, on October 29, seven bandits in Irele Ekiti-Oke Ako Highway in Ajoni Local Council Development Area, Ekiti State abducted four travelers.”
The group urged the South-West governors to be more decisive in tackling insecurity in the region.
