BREAKING: Terrorists Invade Kwara Community, Abduct Housewife, Shoot Brother-In-Law, Demand N100Million Ransom

Gunmen on Monday stormed Igbo Ofe Ora community near Oke-Ode in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, abducting a housewife identified as Rukayat and shooting her brother-in-law, Abdulateef.

Family sources told SaharaReporters on Tuesday evening that the attackers invaded the quiet agrarian village around 11 a.m., firing sporadically before whisking the woman away.

“The woman who was kidnapped is my uncle’s wife. It happened yesterday,” the source said.

“One of my elder brothers who stays with my dad was also attacked. He wasn’t killed, but he was seriously injured and is now in the hospital.”

The source, who insisted the attack was carried out by armed men he identified as “Fulani attackers,” said the gunmen struck as his younger brother was returning to the village on a motorcycle.

“They went into the village. At that time my younger brother was returning from the village on his motorcycle. That was when they started shooting. Everybody fled, and they took my father’s younger brother’s wife away,” the source added.

According to the source, only Rukayat was taken, and the abductors have since contacted the family, demanding a N100 million ransom.

“We took my brother to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital yesterday, but the doctors were on strike. Since the government hospital staff were unavailable, we had to move my brother to a private hospital,” the source said.

As of press time, security agencies had yet to comment on the incident, and tension in the community remains high.

SaharaReporters previously reported that in the early hours of Tuesday, December 2, terrorists launched a deadly ambush on traders travelling from Koro in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State to Egbe in Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State for the popular Ebu Market Day.

SaharaReporters gathered that the attackers struck along the Koro–Egbe route, intercepting vehicles carrying traders on their routine weekly journey to the border community market.