Renewed communal clash: Osun govt imposes curfew on Ifon, Ilobu

Following the just concluded state security meeting, the Osun State government on Tuesday has imposed, with immediate effect, a 6 pm to 6 am curfew on Ifon and Ilobu communities.

The state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi in a statement disclosed that the state government would set up a joint task force of all stakeholders in the warring communities, which should include traditional chiefs of Ifon, Ilobu and Erin Osun with immediate effect.

According to the commissioner, the decision includes “That a high-powered stakeholders meeting will be held with all traditional chiefs and rulers from the three communities with government officials and all security chiefs in attendance;

“That a contingent of all security personnel, comprising the Army, Police, and Civil Defence, be deployed to the warring communities with immediate effect.”

He continued that Governor Ademola Adeleke has mobilized all the necessary security personnel to the warring communities, “it, accordingly with the affected people, who lost their loved ones in the wake of the renewed violence.

“Finally, in this regard, anyone or group of persons found or caught doing or instigating any further violence, knowingly or unknowingly, in breach of lasting peace would be made to face the music, via necessary prosecution, in line with the dictates of the law of Nigeria,” the statement noted.