Police confirm attack on Kwara community, begin investigation

Kwara State Police Command has condemned successful beardown presumption the cowardly and audacious onslaught carried retired by suspected bandits successful the aboriginal hours of Monday 25/5/26 in Yashikira, Kaiama Local Government Area of the state.

The equipped criminals, successful a coordinated and hopeless battle astatine astir 0200hrs, simultaneously attacked the Yashikira Police Divisional Headquarters and the Palace of the Emir of Yashikira, Alhaji Umar Seriki.

A connection by the spokesperson of the command, Adetoun Ejire Adeyemi successful Ilorin, on Monday, disclosed that “During the attack, portion of the palace was acceptable ablaze, portion 10 people, including 2 wives of the Emir, were abducted.

However, the onslaught connected the constabulary presumption was successfully repelled by constabulary operatives connected duty. 

Following the incident, the authorities Commissioner of Police, Ojo Adekimi, instantly ordered a full-scale, intelligence-driven tactical cognition involving the Police, Military, Forest Guards, Vigilantes, and different information stakeholders to comb the surrounding forests and transgression hideouts with the sole nonsubjective of rescuing the victims unhurt and brin...