Reacting to the incident, the Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Yakubu Danladi-Salihu, called for intensified military action along the Niger border axis. “Kwara State is too strategic to this country that we should not allow insurgency to gain ground there. We should ensure that this violence against our people does not happen again anywhere in Kwara State,” he noted. According to the opposition party, Kwara State required far more than “propaganda, photo-ops and hollow sympathy messages” to defeat insurgency and banditry. The Nigerian Army had earlier deployed troops, including units from Operation Fansan Yamma and Operation Whirl Stroke, to intensify security in Kwara State.

Source: Punch February 05, 2026 18:42 UTC