Bandits hit Oyo's Kishi-Ibadan road. The police didn't know.

On Wednesday night, gunmen attacked vehicles on the Kishi-Ibadan route in Oyo State.

At least eight passengers were taken. A commercial driver whose colleague was among the victims reported it. By Thursday morning, military aircraft were circling Kishi town. A local source called it "very unusual."

When reporters contacted Oyo Police Command, they said they had no information about the attack.

The aircraft knew. The police didn't.

This is not a northern story anymore. The Old Oyo National Park forest corridor has become a transit and operations base for armed groups. The corridor runs across Oyo and Kwara. Bandits don't read state boundary maps. They follow the forests.

Kishi is in Irepo Local Government Area, the far northern part of Oyo State. It's not a remote village. It's an LGA headquarters. And it just had military aircraft circling it because the civilian security architecture didn't catch the threat in time.

The southward migration of banditry has been a trend for two years. It's now a confirmed reality. Anyone travelling north out of Ibadan is now in a security zone that has no formal name, no dedicated response structure, and apparently no communication system that gets information from witnesses to command fast enough to matter.