When the sun dipped behind the thick canopy of Oreke-Oke forest in Kwara State, few in the quiet mining town expected anything out of the ordinary. But at exactly 6:30 p.m., the ground shook—not from mining—but from chaos.
A convoy of masked gunmen, armed with high-caliber rifles, stormed the Chinese-operated mining site like ghosts from the underworld. Within minutes, two Nigerian police officers lay dead, the air reeked of gunpowder, and two men—one Chinese, one Nigerian—were gone, swallowed by the vast, dark forest.
The dead? ASP Haruna Watsai and Inspector Tukur Ogah—elite officers of the 45 Police Mobile Force, Abuja.
The missing?
Mr. Sam Xie Wie, a Chinese investor who had just finalized a major deal to expand operations.
Mr. David Adenaiye, a skilled technician from Kogi State, on what was supposed to be a routine shift.
What followed next stunned even hardened security analysts.
Less than 48 hours later, whispers of a mysterious delegation from Beijing arriving in Nigeria began to circulate. They weren’t diplomats. They weren’t aid workers. These were covert operatives—sent not just to observe, but to act.
Escorted discreetly by Nigerian police, they drove straight to the crime scene in Oreke-Oke—at midnight. There, they combed the forest, took samples, used equipment that some local officers had never seen before… and then vanished again, heading back to China as quickly as they came. But not without making one thing clear: They would return.
Meanwhile, the kidnappers had already made their demands:
₦1 billion ransom—or the victims die.
Tension in Oreke-Oke is at an all-time high. Locals sleep with one eye open. Police drones buzz overhead. The Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Adekimi Ojo, has declared war on the kidnappers. But will words be enough?
No one knows where the victims are. No one knows who the gunmen really are. And no one—yet—knows what the Chinese operatives found in that forest…..READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE
