Fear Grips Kogi Communities As Bandits Abduct Okada Union Chairman, 2 Others.

Residents and commercial motorcycle operators in parts of Kogi State have been thrown into fear and anxiety following the abduction of three members of an Okada riders’ union by suspected bandits along the Ageva–Magongo road.

The victims were identified as Mr. Jonathan Stephen Monday, Chairman of the union’s Ogori Branch, alongside Mr. Ashemadaun Eben and Mr. Mosigbodi Jethro Adoga.

According to eyewitnesses, the victims were among members of the union who had travelled to Lokoja to participate in a solidarity rally organised in support of the re-election bid of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo ahead of the 2027 elections.

Sources disclosed that while returning from the event, the bus conveying the group was ambushed by heavily armed bandits along the Ageva–Magongo axis, a route that has increasingly become a security flashpoint for commuters and residents.