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Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has directed the state police command to immediately arrest masterminds of the call for the eviction of Fulani herders from the state as police yesterday took position in the troubled Igangan community, in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State.
Sunday Adeyemo, a Yoruba youth leader better known as Sunday Igboho, had given a seven-day ultimatum to herders to vacate Igangan for their alleged role in the rising cases of kidnaping and banditry in the community.
When the ultimatum expired yesterday, Igboho visited Igangan, where he addressed a crowd of youth and insisted that the herders must vacate the town.
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has directed the state police command to immediately arrest masterminds of the call for the eviction of Fulani herders from the state as police yesterday took position in the troubled Igangan community, in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State.
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While receiving Ngozi Onadeko, the new commissioner of police in the state, at his office on Friday, Makinde charged the police to arrest those who are behind the call for eviction of Fulani herders and Hausas from the state.
Sunday Adeyemo, a Yoruba youth leader better known as Sunday Igboho, had given a seven-day ultimatum to herders to vacate Igangan in Ibarapa north local government area of Oyo state, of rising insecurity.
He had blamed herders for the high rate of kidnap and attacks in the area.
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But Makinde told the police commissioner that the welfare of all those living in the state is the priority of his administration and he would not allow some persons to plunge the state into crisis.
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Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Friday, said his government would not allow anyone hiding under the guise of ethnic interest to perpetrate crisis in the state.
Governor Makinde said the war to be waged by the state and the security agencies is against criminal elements, irrespective of their tribes, religions, or creed.
He added that his administration would not allow anyone to threaten the peace of the state by acting unlawfully as such is against the nation’s Constitution.
The governor spoke while receiving the new Commissioner of Police in the state, Mrs Ngozi Onadeko, stressing that the state government would not relent in placing priority on the welfare of security agencies in the state.
Akinwale Aboluwade
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has said that his government would not allow anyone hiding under the guise of ethnic interest to perpetrate violence in the state.
According to Governor Makinde, the war to be waged by the state and the security agencies is against criminal elements, irrespective of their tribes, religions, or creed.
The governor added that his administration would not allow anyone to threaten the peace of the state by acting unlawfully as such is against the nation’s Constitution.
He spoke while receiving the new Commissioner of Police in the state, Mrs. Ngozi Onadeko, stressing that the state government would not relent in placing priority on the welfare of security agencies in the state.