The hunters maintained that collaboration between local vigilantes and conventional security agencies remains crucial in tackling kidnappings and banditry in rural communities.
Local hunters in Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State have raised fresh alarm over growing insecurity in the area after suspected kidnappers allegedly sent threat letters to communities, warning of planned abductions of schoolchildren.
The hunters said the latest threat came barely two weeks after a petrol station manager was abducted in the council area and later released after ransom was paid.
Speaking during an appearance on Ojukoro, a programme aired on Smash 88.1 FM in Abeokuta, the Chairman of the Hunters’ Association in Odeda Local Government Area, identified simply as Festus Ogundairo, said residents were becoming increasingly alarmed by the worsening security situation in the area, according to a video seen by SaharaReporters.
“It is true that these incidents are not happening only in Odeda, but the situation in Odeda is particularly worrisome,” he said in Yoruba.
