Unidentified gunman shoot dead okadaman at Ipeba Oriire LG

Unidentified gunman shoot dead okadaman at Ipeba Oriire LG

Khalid ABRAHAM

Oriire local government area of Oyo state was thrown into confusion Friday night again as a commercial motorcyclist (popularly called Olokada) was shot dead while his two passengers, who are traders, sustained injuries.

According to information gathered by ogbomosoinsightonline.com the deceased was conveying his passengers two women from Ipeba (along Ogbomoso -Oyo road), in Oriire local government area to their village Ladanu which however is in Ogo-Oluwa local government area, when an unidentified motorcyclist who had been trailing them shot at them. The target was hit leading to the motorcycle veering off the road into the bush where they fell. “The motorcyclist eventually died,” an impeccable source told Ogbomoso Insight.

Eyewitnesses informed, “they were trailed all the way from Ipeba up to the lonely point he was shot. The attackers were not Fulani herdsmen or bandits perhaps they were assassins or armed robbers. However, the okada was not taken away.”

The incident was confirmed by the Alajaawa of Ajaawa HRM Oba Thompson Adeyeye Oyetunji Olumole II. He however said it had nothing to do with Ajaawa, “That is in Oriire local government area, not Ajaawa. Though what is bad is bad and crime is crime. But Ajaawa and indeed Ogo-Oluwa local government is peaceful.”

Sources at Ajaawa Divisional Police headquarters also confirmed the incident though pointing out the scene of the attack was under the jurisdiction of Ikoyi-Ile Divisional Police headquarters.

“It is an heinous act but it happened in Oriire and not in Ogo-Oluwa local government. Ogo-Oluwa is peaceful.”

Meanwhile, investigations into the matter by the police have begun.

Recall bandits also killed three persons including a teacher and student as well as kidnapping scores of students/pupils and teachers at three schools in Oriire local government area recently with the kidnapped victims still in captivity.