Police condemn false bandits alarm in Kwara community

Kwara State Police Commissioner, Ojo Adekimi, on Thursday condemned a fake bandits alarm astatine Oke-Oyi, successful the outskirts of Ilorin.

Adekimi said the dispersed of mendacious information alerts is susceptible of creating fear, panic and nationalist disorder, adding that the dissemination of unverified information, peculiarly connected delicate information matters, undermines nationalist assurance and whitethorn divert captious information resources from genuine emergencies.

DAILY POST reports that an alarm raised by chartless persons that bandits had invaded immoderate schoolhouse astatine Oke-Oyi and Eleko Afeyi communities successful Ilorin East Local Government Area of the state.

The mendacious rumour threw parents into panic arsenic they stormed the schools to instrumentality their children location for safety.

The authorities constabulary command, however, debunked the information.

The Police Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Adetoun Ejire Adeyemi, successful a connection successful Ilorin on Thursday, said, “At astir 9:15 a.m., the bid received reports of panic and commotion astir Government Girls Secondary School, Oke-Oyi, pursuing claims that suspected bandits had invaded the schoolhouse premises.

“Upon receipt of the information, the Divisional Police Officer, Oke-Oyi Division, promptly mobilized unit to the country to asses...