The Nigeria Police Force, Ondo State command has said that the Sabo Community was not a reprisal attack on Northerners.
Police in a statement issued by the spokesperson of the state police command, Funmilayo Odunlami, faulted a media report that it was an attack on Northerners. She said that the attack on Sabo community is a clear case of armed robbery.
She said it is disheartening that the peddlers of the fake news did not confirm the story before spreading the falsehood.
She said the victims involved in the failed robbery attack are from Yoruba, Igbo and Northern extraction
According to her, “the attention of the Ondo State Police Command has been drawn to fake news being peddled by some mischief makers to cause panic, tension and strife in the State.
“The Command wishes to state clearly that there was no reprisal attack on the Hausa Community at Sabo area in Ondo town or any part of the state as purported by these war mongers.
“On Tuesday, 7th of June, 2022, there was an attempted robbery on a J5 vehicle with plate no MKA – 469 YJ carrying Onions and Potatoes coming from Zaria enroute Ore, had a stop-over at Ondo town and was attacked by men of the underworld around 0110hrs,” she said.
