The Olobu of Ilobu, Oba Ashiru Olaniyan, has urged Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke to review the 24-hour curfew imposed on the warring community so that his subjects can assess the ruins.
Recall that Governor Adeleke had imposed a 24-hour curfew on Ilobu, Ifon and Erin after a communal clash over a land dispute, which led to the shooting of 30 residents and loss of N2billion worth of property last week.
Olobu, in a statement yesterday, expressed sadness over the clashes, noting that “several clashes in the last 18 months have drawn us many decades backwards due to the greed, ambition and overzealousness of a few individuals, who lack a sense of history and see leadership as a tool of oppression.”
Speaking about the destruction witnessed by the residents of the community, he said: “I feel your pain, anguish and agony. I have watched in horror how you have been butchered and more than 30 of you killed just in 18 months, and how your houses have been set on fire, your goods razed, stores vandalised and means of livelihood violently destroyed. I plead with you to still maintain peace as we have been instructed by my forefathers.“
Oba Olaniyan cited instances where court and evidence favoured them as the true owners of the disputed land.
Thereafter, he made five demands from the Osun State Government, calling for arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators of the communal clash.
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