Kogi state government denies reports of school abduction

The Security Adviser to the Kogi State Government, Commander Jerry Omodara (rtd), has debunked rumoured bandits abduction of Kiri High School students in the early hours of Wednesday,November 26. An unconfirmed source said that bandits attacked the school located in Aiyetoro Kiri, Kabba Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, in the early hours of today and attempted to abduct some students. The reports also claimed that members of the Kiri Vigilante Group who swiftly mobilised and confronted the attackers, successfully rescued all students who had been kidnapped during the assault. However in a swift reaction, Commander Omodara dismissed the report saying nothing of such happened. He expressed surprise that some group of people will just sit down and post fake news just to create tension in the state. Omodara warned that the state government will go after such people because they see them as members of bandits terrorising the state. He, therefore, appealed to the people of the state to disregard the story, stressing that all security agents in the state were fully on red alert and monitoring every part of the state to avoid any problem.