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WATCH VIDEO: Three kidnap suspects mysteriously killed by thunderstrike in Kwara
Ebunoluwarotimi Adelesi, CP Kwara State Command
..… We’ve commenced investigation on the dev.–CP Adelesi
Facts have continued to emerged on how thunderstrike reportedly killed three suspected kidnappers in the agrarian Oro Ago community in the Ifelodun local government area of Kwara state.
The incident, linked to the efforts of local vigilante team in the Igbomina Kwara axis aimed at checking security challenges of incessant kidnapping and armed robbery in the area.
In a viral video of the incident, it was gathered that the victims of the thunderstrike were suspected members of an eight-man kidnap gang, who reportedly operated in Iwo in Isin local government area of the state. state about two weeks ago.
WATCH VIDEO 1:
The one-minute-13-seconds video clip showed decomposing bodies of three young persons, presumably in their 20s, already burnt beyond recognition in a bush, with flies all over the scene.
The voice in the short video clip said that: “We’re members of the vigilance team in Igbomina Kwara. Our efforts against those perpetrating evil and kidnapping people in our area had yielded fruits. Thunderstrike struck them dead. Three of them. God will continue to make us successful against the evil doers. We shall overcome them all by the grace of God. Thank you all”.
Also, another video clip showed some Fulani herders, said to be relations of the victims of the thunderstrike, in a bush, bemoaning their loss. They ascribed the incident to act of God that cannot be questioned by anyone, saying that thunderstrike is from God and can never be man-made.
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A source among the Oro-Ago Development Union (ODU), a sociocultural organization of indigenes of the area, confirmed the incident, saying that members of the vigilance team in the area briefed the organization on the development.
ROYAL NEWS correspondent also confirmed from a prominent member of Iwo community (name withheld) on the incidence and he confirmed that he also got the information but yet to verify it.
Speaking on the incident, the state Police commissioner, Ebunoluwarotimi Adelesi, said that the command and its men had already commenced investigation on the development.
The Police boss said that veracity of the incident would be ascertained after diligent investigation. 
However, ROYAL NEWS reports that in a bid to stem dowm the tides of crime and criminality in the area, the Iwo Community recently constructed and donated a Divisional Police Station as well as hilux patrol vehicle and three motorcycles to the Nigeria Police through it’s acting Inspector General, IGP Kayode Egbetokun.
L-R: The Olusin of Isanlu-Isin, Oba Solomon Oloyede, the Oniwo of Iwo, Oba Arc. Joshua Olutade and his wife, the AIG Federal Patrol Operations, AIG Paulm Odama and the Group MAnaging Director /CEO of KAM Holding Ltd. Dr. Kamoru Yusuf at the commissioning of the Divisional Police Station donated by the Iwo Community in Isin Local Government Arae of Kwara State on Tuesday. PHOTO CREDIT: ROYAL NEWS CREW
The facility was received on behalf of the immediate past commissioner of police in the state, AIG Paul Odama who is now in charge of Federal Operation at the Force Headquarters, Abuja.
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