Ihunbo killings: Group describes Custom officers as “agent provocateurs”.
Men of the Nigeria Customs Service have been outrightly described as agent provocateur in Ogun State, the description came on the heels of the reported killings of school kids by men of the service around Ihunbo town of Ipokia Local government, Ogun state.
The students, according to reports, had just closed from school, when they were reportedly hit by a vehicle being driven by an official of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).
While the three students were reportedly killed, other students were also said to have sustained varying degrees of injuries, as the Customs officials chased suspected smugglers.
In a statement signed in Abeokuta on Tuesday, the Gateway Media Organization, GMO through its coordinator, Omooba Damilare Oloyede, condemned the dastard act, saying the Custom is now synonymous to agent provocateur in Ogun state.
“There is no hiding behind any finger here, men of the Nigeria Customs service have shown disrespect for communal peace, disdain to the dignity of humanity and thus, they’ve become provocative agents capable of causing crisis in many villages and towns”.
“Some months back, these daredevil elements in the service gunned down innocent people in Owode Yewa, around Oja Odan some times ago, there have been reports like this. So coming below decorum and killings innocent and poor students who were just returning from school is the height of it all”, Oloyede blew.
The GMO however called for caution in Ihunbo, while giving stern warning to men of the Custom Services.
“Youth, community leaders and the good people of Ihunbo are advised to be calm, an eye for an eye won’t bring the solution so desired. We however love to caution the men of the Custom services. Border issues like arrest and inquiry should remain at the border – if circumstances warrant coming to town, it should be without guns, and civility should guide such operation ”
GMO prays that the Almighty God grants the families of these innocent children the fortitude to bear the loss.