{"id":75825,"date":"2025-09-29T07:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75825"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:28:17","slug":"army-orders-ibadan-goc-to-kwara-after-deadly-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/29\/army-orders-ibadan-goc-to-kwara-after-deadly-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Orders Ibadan GOC to Kwara After Deadly Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Army Headquarters has directed the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 2nd Division, Ibadan, to immediately relocate to Kwara State to lead operations against armed groups following a wave of deadly attacks that claimed the lives of at least 12 forest guards and several residents.<\/p>\n<p>The order comes amid heightened concerns over insecurity in parts of Kwara South and Kwara North, where gunmen reportedly ambushed forest guards and community members, leaving others injured or abducted.<\/p>\n<p>Local hunters and guards were said to have repelled the attackers, killing several in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary Rafiu Ajakaye, condemned the killings as \u201cshocking and painful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He commended the bravery of the hunters and forest guards who resisted the assailants, urging residents to remain calm and avoid reprisals that could fuel communal conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also called for increased security deployments to restore peace.<\/p>\n<p>Former Senate President Bukola Saraki, however, criticized the state government for allegedly downplaying the scale of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He accused authorities of suppressing casualty figures and demanded a more transparent account of the security situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Army, the GOC\u2019s relocation is aimed at ensuring swift coordination of counter-insurgency operations and reassuring residents of the government\u2019s resolve to safeguard lives and property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat &nbsp; The Nigerian Army Headquarters has directed the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 2nd Division, Ibadan, to immediately relocate to Kwara State to lead operations against armed groups following a wave of deadly attacks that claimed the lives of at least 12 forest guards and several residents. The order comes amid heightened concerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75827,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75825\/revisions\/75827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}