By Isiaka Mustapha
3 days after he was ambushed and kidnapped by suspected smugglers, the dead body of a customs officer in Ogun State has been found, bringing to two customs officers killed in an ambush in recent time.
Competent sources revealed how suspected smugglers had on Tuesday ambushed a Customs patrol team at Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun, and abducted two customs officers in the process.The officers attached to the Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, comprising Lagos and Ogun State were on patrol of the area on Tuesday afternoon when they were ambushed.
Addressing news men on the latest attack, the Customs Controller, Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, Ikeja, Hussein Kehinde Ejibunu, said on October 16, 2021, at Shagamu Interchange, suspected smugglers carried out unprovoked attacked on some customs officers attached to a patrol team in the area.
According to the controller, the officers accosted about 24 vehicles carrying suspected smuggled rice and 12 of the vehicles were being evacuated to FOU Headquarters in Lagos when the smugglers attacked the officers.
“Two officers sustained matchet wounds and luckily enough, they were treated and responded to treatment. As if that was not enough on Tuesday, October 26, in the same Ogun State suspected smugglers ambushed another patrol team in Yewa South Local government area of Ogun State and abducted two officers.
“Two of the officers were declared missing as at Tuesday. Search for them continued till Wednesday morning when the body of one.of the officers was found in a river near Ajegun-Iyaloosa village on Wednesday. His rifle was also found near the river.
“The search for the second missing officer continued till yesterday, Friday, when the dead body of the second abducted officer was found. The strap of his rifle was still hanging on him as at the time his body was found but his rifle was missing.”