SAD PALM SUNDAY IN IKORODU AS MILITANTS KILL POLICEMEN AND SOLDIERS.

It was a sad palm Sunday in Ikorodu yesterday as militants  suspected to be displaced members of the Niger Delta militants yesterday stormed Ishawo area of Ikorodu to abduct some residents of an estate. In response, the Police and the Army immediately mobilized personnel to the area, where the kidnapped victims were rescued. 

However the gunmen  met resistance from members of the Joint Task Force called Operation Awatse who held them to a heavy gun battle, at the end of which five policemen and two soldiers were allegedly killed.

A witness account has it that the deceased were set ablaze by the militants, while two of their patrol vans were also destroyed.

It was gathered that the militants also suffered casualties, but that they went away with the bodies of their deceased and injured members.

The continuous resurgence  of militancy in the Ishawo area has become worrisome for the residents, who often bear the brunt of the attacks and raids. The residents claimed that the militants raided  their homes to cart whatever valuable they could lay their hands on.

An eye witness who do not want his name to be mentioned in print, revealed  that the militants seemed to have an upper hand over the security forces in the area, 

Some of the resident of the area are of the view that when  the military and the police chased out the militants from Ishawo last year, The security forces  should have put in place  contingency plan for a counter-attack  and not relaxed after r their first victory.