Angry youths on Monday morning staged a massive protest in Obajana community, Lokoja local government area of Kogi state, following the gruesome murder of two persons by bandits on Sunday night.
It was gathered that bandits abducted a woman, Mrs Ruth Williams, after killing the men suspected to be viglante at Oyo-Iwaa, a neighbouing community with Obajana.
The development prompted irate youths to take to the streets of Obajana blocking entries and exits to the community.
The protesting youths lamented that the attacks are becoming too frequent.
An indigene of the community who craved anonymity said the Obajana vigilante leader, ‘Welfare’, was killed in the attack at Oyo-Iwaa on Sunday night.
“This shows that the issue at hand is beyond mere vigilante capacity. Joint force of the Nigerian Army, Air force, Navy and others should be deployed to cleanse our forest from Lokoja down to Kwara state that has become overturned by terrorists and bandits who escaped from the North.
“Based on the experience of the survived victims of these kidnappers, hundreds of terrorists and bandits displaced from Northwestern states of Zamfara and Kaduna are the ones who invaded our land and are overrunning our communities.
“My cousin who was kidnapped last month in this Oyo Iwaa said these kidnappers are in groups, parading our land in military uniforms. They occupy the houses/Ruga of Fulanis whom they have killed or displaced,” he said.
