Residents of Eleyewo Community in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State on Saturday morning took to the streets to protest the abduction of a couple by armed bandits.\n<\/p>\n
The attackers reportedly kidnapped Jamiu Olawale and his wife, shot another person who escaped, and caused other residents to flee for their safety as the hoodlums opened sporadic fire.\n<\/p>\n
In response, the angry residents blocked the Akure-Owo Expressway during the protest, chanting solidarity songs.\n<\/p>\n
Confirming the incident in a statement on Saturday, the Police Public Relations Officer of the state command, DSP Abayomi Jimoh, said the attack occurred around 9:45 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n
He stated, \u201cOn 20th February, 2026, at about 9:45 p.m., information was received regarding an incident involving Mr. Jamiu Olawale and his wife, residents of Olaribigba Estate, Iluabo. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe couple had just returned home from their shop in an ash-coloured Toyota Camry when they were attacked at the frontage of their residence by unknown gunmen who reportedly emerged from the surrounding bush.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe attackers abducted the couple and whisked them away to an unknown destination. During the incident, a neighbour, Mr. Patrick Ilumaro, who was seated in front of his residence, sustained a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was promptly rushed to hospital, where he is currently receiving medical treatment.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The attack comes barely two days after the monarch of Agamo Community in the same local government area, Oba Kehinde Falodun, was reportedly killed by armed bandits.\n<\/p>\n
It was gathered that the monarch was killed while struggling with the attackers as they attempted to kidnap him.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of Eleyewo Community in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State on Saturday morning took to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[55388,55389,22430,42744,55390,667,55391,2802,122,29814,24200],"class_list":{"0":"post-96887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-akure-north","9":"tag-akure-owo-expressway","10":"tag-bandit-attack","11":"tag-community-protest","12":"tag-eleyewo-community","13":"tag-insecurity","14":"tag-jamiu-olawale","15":"tag-kidnapping","16":"tag-nigeria","17":"tag-nigerian-police","18":"tag-ondo-state"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116109359332997905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}