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Emotion ran wild on Thursday at Araba Oluwo community in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, as family, friends and personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Oyo State command, witnessed the burial of Benjamin Oyewole, an official of the NSDC who was killed by hoodlums on Saturday.
Oyewole, an Inspector of Corps in the Armed-Squad Unit of the NSCDC, was on secondment to the Oyo State Joint Security Task Force, otherwise called Operation Burst, when he was killed.
A statement made available to journalists in Ibadan by the NSCDC Public Relations Officer, Oluwole Olusegun, read in part, “The deceased, who was on secondment to the State Joint Security Task Force (Operation Burst), while on an official duty to rescue a Lebanese who was kidnapped at Panarama Farm, Mekun, Oke Alaro, fell to the bullet of the gunmen who laid ambush for the team on Saturday.
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The command made this disclosure in a statement made available to DAILY POST.
An NSCDC official, Mr. Oyewole Segun Benjamin had been killed while on a mission to rescue kidnapped victims in Ibadan.
Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr. Olusegun Oluwole had in a statement issued on Thursday confirmed the death of the deceased.
He noted that Mr. Oyewole Segun Benjamin died while on an official duty to rescue kidnapped victims last week.
He said the officer has been laid to rest at his site in Ibadan.
Oluwole said, “Oyo State Command Armed-Squad Unit Inspector Of Corps (IC) Oyewole Segun Benjamin was laid to rest yesterday, the 17th of December, 2020.