Police refute report of herdsmen attack in Ogun school

The police in Ogun State has refuted the report circulating on social media of an attack by herdsmen on St John’s Anglican Primary School in Agodo.

A writer in his project entitled "#DemonOnLoose" claims that some Fulani herders attacked the school “and turned the school into a pool of the blood of innocent, little kids.”

But in a statement by the police command, the incident and pictures being circulated happened in 2018 when a mentally derailed man broke into the school and murder two students, and not a recent incident.

“Sometime in 2018, a mentally derailed man broke into St. John Anglican Primary School Agodo in Ijebu waterside and matcheted two innocent pupils of the school to death.

“The suspect was hunted for by the police in collaboration with hunters and vigilantes, and he was eventually arrested after three days, and he later died of gunshot injury he sustained during the encounter with security men.

“It is, therefore, a thing of surprise that somebody just sits at the corner of his room, posted the gory pictures of the two innocent kids, who were murdered in cold blood by a psychiatric patient, whose parents are yet to get over the unfortunate incident since 2018 and mischievously ascribed it to an attack by Fulani herders in 2021,” its spokesperson, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi said.

The command warned that the law will soon catch up with those spreading fake news.