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Farmer Escapes Kidnap Attempt in Mojoda, Calls for Effective Local Surveillance

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3 years ago

Jun 25, 2022.

Paul Mbagwu

Farmer Escapes Kidnap Attempt in Mojoda, Calls for Effective Local Surveillance
…he escaped the kidnap, robbery or assassination attempt by the whiskers having left his home in the Lakowe area to his greenhouse farm in Odo-Ayan

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that a young farmer and businessman who reportedly escaped a kidnap attempt in Mojoda, has called on stakeholders and authorities in Eredo LCDA, Epe, Lagos State, to intensify efforts to safeguard lives and properties in the Odo-Ayan area of Mojoda.

The farmer made the call for the socio-economic benefit of the community while narrating his ordeal in an interview with EKO HOT BLOG at the Noforija Divisional Police Station where he lodged the complaint.

“I wish the Local authorities strengthen the security in the area. If it is to set up local security bodies around so that people will be safe.
I wish other farmers in that area would all come together to get adequate security to patrol that area. If the area is not safe, we can not do business”, he said.

According to him, he escaped the kidnap, robbery or assassination attempt by the whiskers having left his home in the Lakowe area to his greenhouse farm in Odo-Ayan.

“Around 9 am, I was heading to the farm from Lakowe. My farm is in Mojoda, Epe around Odo-Ayan. As I was getting to the farm, I noticed that there was a particular place where logs of wood were used to barricade the road.
Why would anybody block the road on a Sunday morning, I wondered?

“The next thing I noticed was some group of people advancing towards me from the bush, pointing their guns. I couldn’t identify them but I knew they had guns and cutlasses.

“My instincts told me it was an ambush situation and I immediately docked my head and reversed my car to find my way out.

“The little time I had to escape provided them with the opportunity to hit my car, cut my front bumper and smashed their cutlass and guns on my glass and bonnet,” he said.

The victim said he drove into the community and raised an alarm to seek help from the hunters and youths who combed the surrounding forests in search of the daredevils but to no avail.

The victim, who disclosed that it was his third year of operation in the community as a snail farmer and later expanded to a greenhouse farm, said there’s been no prior case of such an attack in the vicinity.

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He, however, allayed the suspicion that the dastardly act may have been perpetrated by herders.

“The herders are around here, everyone in the area knows that they’re there. It’s been once in a very long while that I’ve seen them. I can not make accusations of something I didn’t see,” he averred.

See pictures of Vandalised Vehicle:

Farmer escapes kidnap