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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 February 2021 Early in January, a torrent of bad news started emanating from the Ibarapa axis of Oyo State. The stories were about kidnapping, attacks by killer herdsmen and destruction of farmlands across Ibarapaland. Incidentally, those attacks were on the heels of the alarm earlier raised by Governor ‘Seyi Makinde when he declared in Saki, a key town in Oke Ogun axis of the state in December 2020, that some criminal elements were crossing the international borders into the forests around Oke-Ogun and Ibarapa. He said that the state would not allow criminal elements seize the state and terrorise its people. ....
Share Early in January, a torrent of bad news started emanating from the Ibarapa axis of Oyo State. The stories were about kidnapping, attacks by killer-herdsmen and destructions of farmlands across Ibarapaland. Incidentally, those attacks were on the heels of the alarm earlier raised by Governor‘Seyi Makinde when he declared in Saki, a key town in Oke Ogun axis of the state in December 2020 that some criminal elements were crossing the international borders into the forests around Oke-Ogun and Ibarapa. He said that the state would not allow criminal elements seize hold of the state and terrorise its people. ....
Akinwale Aboluwade Dr. Bashir Bello, Commissioner for Health in Oyo State, on Monday said the Ministry had commenced the treatment of the three victims who were attacked in Igangan by herdsmen in line with the directive by Governor Seyi Makinde that they should be relocated to the state capital for intensive medicare. Bello, who said that the three persons are receiving treatment at a government hospital in Ibadan, hinted that they are now in stable condition. According to him, the decision to relocate the victims of herdsmen attacks was taken by Governor Makinde during his visit to Igangan last week with a directive that the Ministry of Health should take full charge of the cost of the treatment of the three victims. ....
Advertisement He disclosed this on Monday, adding that Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo, had ordered the relocation of the victims to Ibadan. A statement signed by Taiwo Adisa, chief press secretary to the governor, noted that the commissioner stated this while speaking to newsmen in Ibadan, the Oyo capital. According to the commissioner, the victims are 26-year-old Isaiah Seun, 71-year-old Emmanuel Aderogba, and Adekola Adeyemo, aged 65. Advertisement “Following the directive of the governor that the ministry should take charge of the three victims of herdsmen attack at Igangan, the permanent secretaries of the ministry of health, hospital management board and a team of medical doctors went down and combined with the chairman of Ibarapa North-West LCDA, to bring the three victims,” the statement reads. ....
Suspected Herdsmen Attack Motorists In Oyo Community, Angry Residents Burn Fulani Settlement The Commandant of Oyo State Security Network Agency (Amotekun Corps), Col. Olayinka Olayanju (rtd), had earlier declared that Ibarapaland was safe and free of killer herdsmen and kidnappers. by Saharareporters, New York Feb 08, 2021 Some hours before the Oyo State government assured residents of the state that the Ibarapa area of the state was now safe for people to move without fear or intimidation, motorists in three cars were attacked by suspected herdsmen in Eruwa, capital of Ibarapa East Local Goverment area of the state. The incident was said to have occurred at a place known as Okolo in Eruwa. ....