Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde has embarked on a visit to Ibarapa zone. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Taiwo Adisa had said the Governor will tour the zone when all the security reports and situations would have been concluded and assessed.
Recall that violence recently erupted in Igangan after a Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho and his supporters, stormed the Fulani settlements in the area to evict herdsmen accused of perpetuating criminal activities in Oke-Ogun.
Governor Makinde has not personally visited the areas but has sent representatives of the state government to hold a meeting with the police and monarchs of the troubled areas.
Recall that Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State explained in a recent interview that the governor had been fully briefed on what is happening in Ibarapa, saying that the fact that the governor has not gone to Ibarapa or Oke Ogun does not mean he is not working on the issue in the axis.
Many Nigerians have criticised the governor for leaving the state to attend a meeting with governors and herdsmen in Akure amid the herdsmen-landowners crisis in his state but the Governor will arrive Ibarapa any moment from now.
This medium also learned that the Governor will be meeting different stakeholders from the zone while lasting solutions will be proffered to restore peace and tranquility.
Further investigation revealed that the Governor will be meeting different stakeholders from the zone while lasting solutions will be proffered to restore peace and tranquility to the zone.
Recall, tension has been heightened in Igangan and the entire Ibarapa zone following the gruesome murder of some indigenes and residents of the zone as well as kidnapping of farmers by Fulani herdsmen which led to the eviction of the Seriki Fulani of Igangan.
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