The Kwara State Police Command said on Friday that it has launched a discreet investigation into the alleged armed robbery attack which occurred on Rore/Arandun road in Irepodum Local Government Area of the state, which claimed two lives on Thursday.
This is another incident of gunmen’s attack in the district that has been troubled with banditry and kidnapping in the recent time.
The Police in a statement signed on Friday by the Command’s spokesperson, SP Adetoun Ejire -Adeyemi, on behalf of the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Adekimi Ojo, said that “two people were killed allegedly by the same gang of gunmen at different locations while carrying out their criminal operation around Rore and Arandun communities.”
One of the victims, according to the statement, was said to be a 40-year-old security guard at a residence in Rore, who was said to be shot while preventing the gunmen from breaking into the residence.
“The other was described as a 38-year-old driver of a vehicle passing through the highway from Ora community in Osun State with loads of farm produce.”
“He was said to have been shot dead while a passenger in the vehicle sustained a serious injury,” the statement said.
Ejire-Adeyemi, who confirmed the incident in a statement, said corpses of the two victims had been deposited in the mortuary while the police had commenced an investigation into the matter.
The statement reads: “The Kwara State Police Command confirms an unfortunate armed robbery and culpable homicide incident which occurred at about 06:30hours of Thursday, 28th August, 2025, along Rore/Arandun highway, Irepodun LGA. Armed hoodlums attacked the residence of a businessman, Mr Oyetoyan Dare, during which his private security guard, Mr Wale Ajiboye, aged 40, was fatally shot while resisting their attempt to gain entry into the residence.
“In a related development, the same gang ambushed a vehicle conveying farm produce from Ora in Osun state; the driver, Mr Taiye Yebi, aged 38, who was unaware of the robbery incident, while driving past, was fatally shot, another passenger sustained minor injury.
“Police operatives swiftly responded, recovering expended and live ammunition from the scene. The corpses of the deceased have been deposited at the hospital morgue while investigations are ongoing.
“The Commissioner of Police, CP Adekimi Ojo PSC, has ordered a discreet investigation and reinforced patrols within the area to forestall recurrence. The Command reassures the public that normalcy has been restored, and perpetrators will be apprehended.”
Concerns had been raised by stakeholders about the level of insecurity in the south district following incessant occurrences of banditry, kidnapping and some other forms of attacks by gunmen on the residents.
The state government, working with security agencies, has been responding to the attack by mobilising for greater security in the district.
However, many residents were still seeing the government’s efforts as other yet enough, as they have called for intensification of the efforts to find a permanent solution to the crisis.
A group of youths from the district recently called for the deployment of military force and imposition of curfew to end insecurity in the area.
The youths made the call under the aegis of Kwara Youth Development Organisation, Kwara South Consultative Youth Forum, Igbomina Youth Assembly and other Kwara South community-based youth organisations.
The youths at a press conference in Ilorin decried the insecurity in the district, saying the wave of killings had created daily fear and panic.
Their spokesperson, Engr. Ajibola Olugbenga, while mentioning the havoc the insecurity has wreaked in the district, said the bandits used weapons more sophisticated than those of the local security men and that if no urgent action is taken, the gunmen may soon overrun both rural communities and urban centres in the area.
He stated, ” Kwara South is bleeding. Our communities are under siege from bandits, terrorists and heavily gunmen who kill, maim, abduct, and destroy without remorse. We have lost revered traditional rulers such as Oba Olusegun Aremu-Cole, the Olukoro of Koro-Ekiti in Ekiti LGA, as well as countless hunters, vigilantes, and community leaders who stood to defend their people.
“The wave of killings has created daily fear and panic. Farmers can no longer access their farmlands; traders and travellers live in terror; and families are fleeing ancestral homes that have existed for centuries. Communities such as Oreke, Babanla, Ganmu-Alheri, Bankole, Sagbe, Ologomo have now been deserted, and many others are gradually being reduced to ghost towns. With farmers displaced, a major food crisis looks threatening not only to Kwara State but also to urban centres across Nigeria that depend on Kwara South for agricultural produce.
“Our hunters and local vigilantes, who serve as the first line of defence, are being systematically targeted and killed. The bandits wield more sophisticated weapons than the crude rifles available to our people. The implication is clear: If nothing is done urgently, the terrorists will overrun not only rural communities but also urban centres, plunging Kwara into uncontrollable chaos. This is no longer a local challenge; it is a national security emergency.”
While acknowledging past efforts of the government and the traditional rulers who have spoken against the menace Olugbenga said, “We do not need rhetoric; we need action. We do not need promises; we need protection. The Kwara State Government under Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the Federal Government, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must understand that what we face in Kwara South is nothing short of terrorism.
He said the youths demanded immediate and heavy deployment of military forces into Kwara South to restore order, dislodge bandits and secure the communities, while there should be a full military base and not mere occasional patrols in the affected axis.
The youth spokesperson asked that a 12-hour curfew from 6pm to 6am in the most affected communities be imposed to allow military operations to flush out the criminals.
He urged an emergency security operation to be treated as a matter of national urgency with military surveillance, air support, and combing of forests where terrorists are hiding.
Olugbenga requested that community hunters and vigilantes, who remain the first line of defence for the people, should be provided with modern arms and logistics.
He called for the creation of a joint security task force with federal, state, and local government alongside youth representatives to ensure coordinated response and accountability.
He urged swift federal intervention programmes to rehabilitate displaced persons, rebuild destroyed communities and prevent further mass migration.
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