Gunmen have killed an officer of the Osun State Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Amotekun Corps, at Papa Farm in Iwo Local Government Area of the state.
The spokesperson for the Osun Amotekun Corps, Yusuf Idowu, confirmed the incident on Thursday, May 1, 2025.
Idowu disclosed that the incident occurred on Wednesday, April 30.
Idowu stated that Amotekun officers and members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN) were responding to a distress call by farmers in the Papa Farm area that they were attacked.
He said when the Amotekun officers from Iwo Command, in company of the VGN officers, mobilised to the location, the assailants who laid ambush, shot at them.
Idowu said: “The officers who went to the location on motorcycles, because of the road structure of the area, were trying to escape the attack before one of them, Lamidi Abiodun, was unfortunately pulled down from the motorcycle and hacked to death with an axe.
“In the same vein, an officer of the VGN was shot in the leg, while another one is still missing.”
Idowu, however, said the Corps has mobilised to the area and working to arrest the perpetrators.
He described the death of the Amotekun officer as a tragic loss to the agency and the wider security community in Osun State.
Idowu said the incident had been reported to the Iwo Police Division, adding that the remains of the deceased have been deposited at the mortuary.
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