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The Department of State Service (SSS) has raised the alarm astir planned attacks connected immoderate borderline communities successful Ondo State by suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) violent group.
In a confidential memo dated October 20, 2025, addressed to the Brigade Commander of the 32 Artillery Brigade, Nigerian Army Corps of Artillery, Owena Cantonment, Akure, the information bureau disclosed that credible quality confirmed plans by the violent radical to transportation retired coordinated assaults successful Ondo and Kogi States.
The memo, signed by Hi Kana, Director of Security, Ondo State Command, identified Eriti Akoko and Oyin Akoko successful Akoko North-West Local Government Area, arsenic good arsenic Owo municipality successful Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State, arsenic among the terrorists’ intended targets.
The DSS warned that the terrorists had already begun surveillance connected brushed targets successful the affected areas and called connected the subject to heighten information operations to forestall immoderate attack.
The memo reads successful part: “Intelligence has confirmed plans by members of ISWAP to transportation retired coordinated attacks connected communities successful Ondo and Kogi States soon.”
The bureau further advised that information alertness crossed the identified communities beryllium accrued instantly to forestall nonaccomplishment of beingness and property.
This improvement comes hardly 3 years aft the June 2022 onslaught connected St. Francis Catholic Church successful Owo, wherever much than 40 worshippers were massacred by suspected ISWAP fighters.
However, reacting to the report, Ondo State Government assured residents that applicable information agencies were acting connected the accusation and taking indispensable precautions to guarantee information and security.
Speaking done the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Idowu Ajanaku, the State authorities explained that the “leaked memo is portion of regular quality reports routinely shared among information agencies and the government. Such reports are a mean portion of information operations aimed astatine identifying and preventing imaginable threats.”
According to Ajanaku, “These quality reports often incorporate varying levels of menace appraisal and are utilized successful associated operations by information agencies to heighten vigilance and alteration proactive measures.”
He added, “The authorities is alert of the caller information alert memo from the State Security Service addressed to the 32 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army successful Akure regarding a imaginable violent onslaught successful parts of the state, which was leaked to the media.
“The nationalist tin beryllium assured that these reports are being acted upon by the authorities and applicable information agencies, and indispensable precautions are being taken to guarantee information and security.
“The accent remains connected maintaining vigilance and practice betwixt information agencies and the authorities to forestall and respond to immoderate imaginable threats.
“The Ondo State government, led by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, is successful changeless interaction with information agencies and is taking respective steps to support residents, particularly those successful borderline communities, truthful that Ondo State remains 1 of the safest states successful the country.”
Ajanaku urged residents to stay calm and vigilant and to study immoderate suspicious enactment to the nearest information agency.
He said, “We entreaty to residents to enactment calm, transportation connected with their mean regular activities, refrain from taking the instrumentality into their ain hands, cooperate with information agencies, and supply immoderate accusation that whitethorn assistance forestall immoderate menace successful immoderate part of the state.”
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