Ogun Assembly reacts to alleged Ondo govt’s attempt to install monarch in border community

…seeks security intervention

The Ogun State House of Assembly has called for the immediate intervention of various security agencies over attempt to install a traditional ruler from Ondo, in Irokun community in Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of the state.

The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Oludaisi Elemide sought the intervention on Friday, during an inter-agency engagement held at the State House of Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

The meeting had in attendance concerned stakeholders, including the officials from the State Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, led by the State Commissioner, Hon. Ganiyu Hamzat, representative of the State Boundary Commission/ State Surveyor General, Surveyor Abodunrin Omotoso, the traditional rulers from Ogun Waterside, led by Ojotunmoro of Abigi, Oba ( Barr) Olusegun Ogunye, the Commissioner of Police, represented by Assistant Commissioner of Police ( Operations) Olufemi Adaramola, and the Onirokun of Irokun Kingdom, Oba Buari Balogun, amongst others.

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Elemide, while seeking the immediate deployment of more security personnel to the area, called on the State Government to extend its infrastructural development projects to the border communities to further take charge of the areas to ward off unwarranted incursion into the boundary communities like Irokun, which, by all evidence available, including land documentation and historical facts, remains part of Ogun State.

According to the Speaker, the State Government had done tremendously well in the infrastructural advancement of the State, soliciting for the extension of the projects to all border and rural communities in the State to further prevent the invasion from neighbouring States.

He enjoined the State Police Command to take full charge of security measures in the area to prevent any illegal installation of traditional rulers from the neighbouring State on the Ogun State land, saying that such illegality could threaten the existing peace in the boundary communities.

Earlier in his presentation, the State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Hamzat, said that more infrastructural development within the boundary communities would ward off the incursion from the neighbouring State, while soliciting for more security presence in the communities.

On his part, the traditional rulers led by Ojotunmoro of Abigi, Oba Ogunye, and the monarch, whose kingdom was affected, Onirokun of Irokun, Oba Balogun, noted that more infrastructural development in the area would help prevent the invaders, thanking the State Government through the Office of the Deputy Governor, Engr. Noimot Salako Oyedele for the different interventions in the past on the same issue.