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Suspected bandits attacked the palace of a accepted ruler successful Olayinka community, Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, aboriginal connected Saturday greeting and abducted the monarch.
There were conflicting reports astir the incident. According to the Nigerian Tribune, immoderate assemblage sources said the monarch’s woman and different idiosyncratic were besides taken away, but the constabulary said lone the accepted ruler was kidnapped.
The Kwara State Police Commissioner, Adekimi Ojo, confirmed that lone the monarch was abducted and added that the attackers besides stole a ample sum of wealth from the palace.
According to him, the monarch had brought the wealth location connected Friday earlier the equipped men struck successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday.
The attackers reportedly stormed the palace astir 1:40 am, firing shots into the aerial earlier taking the monarch away.
The abducted monarch was said to person been precocious elevated and officially installed by the Kwara State Government earlier this year, making the incidental adjacent much shocking to residents.
This is the 3rd clip successful astir a twelvemonth that a accepted ruler has been kidnapped successful Kwara South.
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