Jan 25, 2021
Representative of Governor Seyi Makinde, who is also his security adviser, CP Fatai Owoseni (retd) (left); Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko (middle) and the Olugbon of Orile Igbon, Oba Francis Alao, during a peace parley to address the violence rocking Igangan and Ibarapa land over rising waves of kidnapping and other crimes, at Igangan Town Hall, on Sunday, Jan 24, 2021.
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INDIGENES of Igangan community in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, on Sunday, recounted how they had been forced to pay about N50 million in ransom for wanton cases of kidnapping in the area.
Beyond being victims of kidnapping, the residents of Ibarapa communities also recounted regular experience of invasion of their farms and raping of their women by herders.
The Oyo State Government on Sunday said at least 51 suspects are on trial for their involvement in kidnapping, rape and banditry from the Oke Ogun axis of the state.
The Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde on Security, Mr. Fatai Owoseni disclosed this during an assessment tour of Igangan, Ago Are and Tede communities, calling on residents to stop hostilities and allow peaceful coexistence which the areas have been noted for.
Owoseni and the Commissioner of Police in the state, Ngozi Onadeko jointly appealed to the residents after an on the spot assessment of troubled areas.
The delegation, which also visited Ago Are and Tede communities, which got engulfed in communal clashes over the weekend, held peace parleys at the Ago Are town hall and the palace of the Onitede of Tede, Oba Rauf Oladoyin.