Bloodbath in Offa as daredevil men of the underworld laid siege in Offa Community of Kwara state.

Thursday, about 50 robbers came in 7 to 8 motorcade to sack the Offa Divisional Police Headquarters, snuffing lives out of every living thing in the police vicinity including the police, complainants, suspects in custody and stray animals.

Thereafter, the notorious robbers proceeded to the premises of GTB and
First Bank where they carried out their nefarious activities unchallenged.

After the operations which lasted for hours, the robbers fled Offa through
Igosun Community axis.

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Several people have been reacting to the robbery attack on social media, read some below;

* Oh my God it’s so touching,i cried.Obviously when the banks releases the CCTV footage they will be caught.I just hope they get instantaneous judgements or perhaps they are handed over to angry mobs to get lynched.

* The unfortunate activities of armed robbers in this town has been too recurrent in this town that one would have expected special effort by the state police. Infact, as at my last check, banks practically close at about 12pm every Friday for some years now.

* 5banks at once. Na wa oom no security in Nigeria anymore

* Only if you all know how many police and sars were killed you all won’t be here judging smh😠😤

* They robbed 5 banks not 1 and I believe that went on for hours, so u want to say till they were done, No security operative heard that robbery was going on. Abeg from leave matter.

* 5 banks and SARS no show up…and it na to harrass people now…u go see them dere… rubbish. .this is exactly what happened in omu-aran some years back…till today no single bank in omu-aran except inside landmark university…same thing will happen in Offa now…RIP to the dead..

Report said, the robbers spent few times in Igosun High School before they finally left.

Offa Community has always been a target of attacks by the men of the
underworld due to the heavy concentration of commercial banks.

Recall that all the banks in Offa have only been operating skeletal services after
similar experiences in 2013.

Yesterday's robbery attack call to question the safety and security situations in the country. Although, armed robbery is a global phenomenon as there is no country that is immune to it, but the level of occurrence differs from one country to the other.

 In Nigeria, amidst the harsh realities of poverty, hunger, starvation, and joblessness, Nigerians are often been subjected to out-of-control armed robbery like the cases in Offa.

Unfortunately, the government seems to have no strategy in place at this
moment to fight back.

Sadly, the corruption and unemployment situation compound the social problems in the country as many unemployed youth easily turn to crime as a way to make ends meet or in defiance of the society that has failed to provide for their basic needs.

 The reasons for increase in the crime rate in Nigeria are, however, not meant to validate the actions of those who perpetuate armed robbery or any similarly related crimes.

With the current spate of insecurity arising from insurgency and other criminal activities in the country, the onus is on the government to ensure
that everything is done to ensure that armed robbery attacks like this are
reduced to the barest minimum.