Kogi Bandits Alert: Police Intel Says Schools, University, Banks Are Next – They’re Already in the Bush Wearing Army Uniforms
By: Abudu Olalekan
Anyigba, Kogi East. Saturday night.
A police wireless message just landed like a bomb in every station from Dekina to Egume.
“LARGE NUMBER OF BANDITS HAVE MIGRATED INTO FORESTS AROUND BASSA AND ANYIGBA/OCHAJA AXIS… DRESSED IN MILITARY UNIFORMS… HEAVILY ARMED WITH AK-47… MAIN TARGETS: OCHAJA BOYS/GIRLS SECONDARY SCHOOLS, PRINCE ABUBAKAR AUDU UNIVERSITY ANYIGBA, BANKS, POLICE STATIONS, CHURCHES/MOSQUES.”
In plain English: they’re already here.
They ran from the army boys hammering them in Kwara and Niger, crossed the border quiet-quiet, and now they’re sitting inside our forests wearing the exact same camouflage as Nigerian soldiers.
Mothers in Ochaja didn’t sleep last night.
One woman told me she packed her two daughters’ bags at 2 a.m. and sent them to her sister in Lokoja because “if they come wearing army uniform, who will know the difference until they start shooting?”
Students at Prince Abubakar Audu University are sharing the leaked police signal in their WhatsApp groups. Some are already on buses going home. Hostels that were full yesterday now look half empty. The ones still around walk in groups, eyes darting at every Hilux that passes.
Banks in Anyigba town have quietly told staff to resume with only skeleton crew on Monday. ATMs will still work, they say, but the vaults? Better not risk it.
The police memo is screaming RED ALERT.
Fortify every station. Bring QRU and PMF now. Stop and search every vehicle. Patrols every hour. Surveillance no sleeping.
But everybody knows the truth: these forests are thick. These boys know every footpath. They’ve done it in Zurmi, they’ve done it in Shiroro, they’ve done it in Chikun. Now it’s our turn.
A DPO in one of the divisions confessed off-record last night:
“We have 38 rifles in the armory and only 26 are working. Some of my boys are using their personal pump-actions. How do you stop people with military rifles and military uniforms when half your team can’t tell friend from foe in the dark?”
Parents are begging.
One man in Ochaja called me crying: “My son is writing WAEC next year abeg. If they take him now, everything don finish. Please tell the government we are not cattle.”
Even the big men are scared.
Yesterday night, one popular politician in Idah was seen loading his family into two jeeps heading to Abuja. If the big men are running, what about us?
This is not rumor. This is not “maybe.”
The signal came straight from State Intelligence Department, Lokoja. Marked urgent. Signed by ACPOL SID.
They are here.
They are watching the schools. They are counting heads in the university. They are timing when police change shift.
And they are wearing the same uniform as the people who are supposed to protect us.
God help Kogi East.
