An atmosphere of fear is pervading Oluseyi Area in Omu-
Aran, Kwara, following alleged disappearance of a 30-year
old civil servant, Olaniyi Muyideen, in the area.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that
Muyideen is a staff of the State Universal Basic
Education Board (SUBEB) attached to Irepodun
Local Government Education Authority, Omu-
Aran office, as a computer operator
He was said to have left his house around 7.00
a.m on Wednesday, Sept. 30, leaving his door
unlocked with his mobile phone and other items
inside his room.
One Mr Femi, who claimed to be his landlord,
told NAN that it was on Friday when Muyideen’s
parents called from Ilorin to inquire about him
that he found that his door was unlocked.
He said that the fears of neighbours were
further heightened when a search party,
organised to ascertain his whereabouts, later
found his slippers, clothes and underwear inside
an uncompleted building few metres to the
house.
Femi said the matter had already been reported
to the Divisional Police Command in Omu-Aran.
“I was thinking he had left for Ilorin from the
office on Wednesday to check on his parents; it
was his usual practice.
“It was when his parents called on Friday asking
about him that I noticed he had left his door
unlocked and I quickly raised an alarm,” he said.
Reacting to the development, Mr Bisi Dosunmu,
the Secretary, Irepodun Local Government
Education, said his office was working with the
police and the town’s vigilance group to
ascertain his whereabouts.
“We have been working together with the
police, the town’s vigilante and other law
enforcement agencies in our efforts to locate
him.
“It is our prayers that no arm befalls him so that
we can locate him hail and healthy,” he said.
NAN recalls that there have been incidents of
attempted kidnapping and threat to life within
the community in the last few months.
Efforts of the police to fight the menace recently
paid off with the arrest of four suspected
kidnappers known to have been terrorising the
community and its environs.
The arrested kidnappers were said to have
confessed to the kidnapping the leader of the
Fulani clan in Ekiti Local Government Area,
Alhaji Aliyu Harande, on July 9.
He was later released after payment of some
undisclosed amount of money as ransom.
A kidnap attempt was also made on a renowned
Islamic cleric and community leader in Omu-
Aran, Alhaji Issa Ten-Ten, on July 4 when he was
going for the early morning prayers.
The suspect was said to have fled in an
unidentified vehicle when the victim raised an
alarm.
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