Oyo lawmakers recount encounters with kidnappers, herders, hoodlums Oyo lawmakers recount encounters with kidnappers, herders, hoodlums
• Ask Makinde to constitute open grazing prohibition task force, tackle insecurity
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Several lawmakers of the Oyo State house of Assembly, on Tuesday, recounted encounters with hoodlums, kidnappers, herders across the state, urging Governor Seyi Makinde, to urgently assent and see to the implementation of the state’s Open rearing and grazing regulation law, 2019.
The lawmakers decried an increase in killings, kidnappings, herders invasion of farms, crime and criminality in the state while contributing to a motion co-sponsored by Honourable Babajide Adebayo of Ibadan North II constituency and Honourable Tunde Isiaka of Oyo East/West constituency titled: “Stemming the Spike of Insecurity, Killings and Kidnappings in the state,” on Tuesday’s plenary.
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.