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The National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, (OPC), Chief Gani Adams, has called on the Oyo State Police Command to fish out the killers of four men at Idiyan village, Igangan, Oyo State.
The Oyo State Police Command confirmed that the four men were killed in the early morning of yesterday .
This is coming barely 24 hours after members of OPC arrested a Fulani warlord, Iskilu Wakili, in the area.
Adams, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, said the four men were killed in the “most gruesome manner”.
“Wakili men have displaced more than a million residents in the over 10 villages in Oke Ogun. They have raped, and killed residents at will. They have been terrorising our people for more than six years.
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Oyo State Police Command, yesterday, confirmed the killing of four persons in Ibarapa North Local Government area of Oyo State by unknown gunmen.
The President of Igangan Development Advocates (IDA), Wale Oladokun, has told The Guardian four persons were killed in Kokobido village in the council.
Oladokun said: “Four persons were killed at Kokobido village in Ibarapa North Local Government Area.” Confirming the incident, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Olugbenga Fadeyi, said: “It was reliably gathered that unknown gunmen attacked and killed four men at Kokobido village, Diko Ile via Ijio at around 3.pm.
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Consequently, stakeholders in the community have described the state government’s intervention as ineffective.
One of the community leaders, the CDA Chairman of Oke-Agbede, a village in Imeko-Afon Local Government of Ogun State, Prince Adebisi Peter Obaagbo, stated that, “the recent visit of Governor Dapo Abiodun to the affected areas, and his promise to provide adequate security are of no value.
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He explained that, “since the visit of the Governor on Monday 15th February, 2021, Fulani herdsmen have not stopped the killing and maiming of the people.
“For example, Mr Segun Abiodun, 32, sustained a machete cut injury inflicted on him by the herdsmen while on his farm at Asudodo village, Imeko-Afon Local Government on Tuesday, 23rd February, 2021, because he wouldn’t allow them to gain access to a well on his farm.
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An Iyaganku Senior Magistrates’ Court, sitting in Ibadan, on Wednesday, remanded two persons, Bawa Maiyawo, 50 and Dengi Arande, 50, in Abolongo Correctional Centre at Oyo town over alleged armed robbery.
The Magistrate, Mrs T. B. Oyekanmi, who did not take the pleas of the defendants, ordered their remand, pending legal advice from the Oyo State Directorate of Public Prosecution.
Oyekanmi, according to the News Agency of Nigeria, thereafter, adjourned the matter till May 3, for mention.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Sgt. Bewaji Ojo, had told the court that Maiyawo and Arande allegedly conspired with others, now at large, to commit the offence.