The Oyo State Police Command has officially and vehemently debunked a widely circulating, viral online report alleging the arrest of a prominent local pastor in connection with the tragic kidnapping of several schoolchildren and their teachers within the state. In a swift, highly detailed official statement released to the media, the command’s public relations unit completely dismissed the sensationalized narrative as a dangerous fabric of absolute falsehood, urging social media users, entertainment bloggers, and digital content creators to immediately cease the spread of unverified information that could easily jeopardize public peace and ongoing security operations. The police authority clarified that while strategic intelligence teams and tactical anti-kidnapping squads are currently working round the clock in the forests to ensure the safe rescue of the abducted victims and the ultimate neutralization of the criminal elements responsible, no religious leader has been arrested, detained, or implicated in the ongoing criminal investigation. Security experts and community leaders have heavily lamented the alarming rate at which face-less digital platforms manufacture sensitive, high-stakes security stories simply to drive internet traffic and gain massive online clout, noting that falsely labeling an innocent citizen as a terrorist or kidnapper could trigger devastating incidents of jungle justice and public lawlessness. According to inside sources within the Oyo State security apparatus, the police high command has already initiated a comprehensive digital forensic tracking process to identify the original publishers of the malicious fake news, promising to prosecute those responsible under the Cybercrimes Act to serve as a strong, definitive deterrent to others. The command forcefully reassured the anxious families of the abducted students and the wider public that the state government is deploying all available operational assets—including advanced aerial surveillance and joint border patrols with neighboring state commands—to bring the real perpetrators to justice and safely reunite the captives with their loved ones. As the official police denial trends heavily across major current affairs groups, WhatsApp communities, and local forums, the general public is being strongly advised to always rely exclusively on formal press briefs from authorized security spokespersons rather than sensationalized headlines published by unverified online tabloids.
