Police arrest three suspects for breaching curfew in warring communities
Against the backdrop of perennial boundary disputes between Ifon, Ilobu and Erin-Osun communities, which have culminated in loss of lives and property, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, said the development had demonstrated the failure of Governor Ademola Adeleke to secure the state.

The opposition party also chided the governor over his refusal to make an on-the-spot inspection tour of the troubled communities five days after the violent clashes.

In a statement, the APC’s Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, noted that it is strange and worrisome that while the victims of the clashes were still counting their losses, the governor had not deemed it fit to visit the scenes, describing such attitude as the highest level of insensitivity.

The statement reads in part: “When the natives of the affected communities are now gasping for survival by living in a demeaned condition and becoming ‘refugees’ in neighbouring towns and villages, it is strange that Governor Ademola Adeleke has not deemed it fit to pay a visitation to the affected areas to give confidence and succour to the victims of the avoidable strife.”

“It is doubtful if a governor who is yet to know the extent of the damage done to the governed in the affected communities would have the wherewithal to think of how to arrange for relief materials for the homeless victims and those who lost their loved ones.

“The shabby handling of the recurrent communal clashes is a manifestation of the lip service the governor pays to the welfare and security of the citizens.”

Meanwhile, the Osun State Police Command, yesterday, said it had arrested three suspects for allegedly breaching the ongoing dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed on some warring communities in the state by the governor.

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state command, Adeola Adeoye, who disclosed this in a statement, said that the Command, in collaboration with personnel of other sister security agencies, would do everything humanly possible to prevent further bloodshed and breakdown of law and order through strict enforcement of the 24 hours curfew declared by the governor.