Gunmen have killed two and kidnapped 30 people in Ayegunle Bunu, a town in the Kabba-Bunu Local government area of Kogi state.
The attack was confirmed on Monday by Saliu Oyiza, spokesman of the state command.
He said the victims include 26 men and 4 women and two other persons lost their lives in the attack.
“Yes, people were kidnapped, but there were 30 people who were kidnapped,” Oyisza said.
“Four of them are female, and twenty-six are male, and two people were also killed during the attack.”
The victims were passengers travelling in a commercial bus that was intercepted by the suspected terrorists while passing through the community — barely 24 hours after the Kogi state government suspended the Echane festival in Ebiraland.
In a statement earlier on Saturday, Kingsley Fanwo, Kogi state commissioner for communications, said that the suspension followed “credible intelligence” suggesting that activities associated with the festival could endanger public peace and lead to a breakdown of law and order in parts of Kogi central senatorial district.
Fanwo noted that Ahmed Ododo, governor of the state, directed the suspension of the festival as a preventive security measure and instructed security agencies to enforce compliance.
