A farmer from Olobu’s Compound in Ilobu, Osun Climate, Sikiru Onaolapo, was once on Tuesday reportedly shot lifeless on his farm situated within the Oke Ekutu department.
Oke Ekutu department is without doubt one of the settlements situated inside of boxes inflicting disputes between Ilobu and Ifon-Orolu communities.
Then the alleged killing, the corpse of a dead body was once taken to the doorway of Olobu’s palace with a immense people accompanying the automobile wearing a dead body.
In a video pictures acquired, amid wailings, Ilobu citizens demanded rapid motion from the Osun Climate Governor, Ademola Adeleke, and the protection brokers to de-escalate rigidity and ban reprisal.
In a talk with The PUNCH, Otun Jagun of Ilobu, Leke Ogunsola, mentioned, “Sikiru Onaolapo is the victim. He hailed from Olobu’s Compound of Ilobu. He went to his farm at Oke Ekutu this morning and he was shot dead.”
At the calls for of the public to de-escalate rigidity, Ogunsola referred to as at the safety businesses within the condition to arrest the suspect and perform a radical investigation into the killing to ban a recurrence.
He additional mentioned, “The demand from the Ilobu community is that the security agents should get the suspect arrested and do thorough investigation to unravel the issues surrounding the killing.”
But if contacted for response to the allegations that an indigene of Ifon-Orolu killed the Ilobu farmer, the Secretary, Board of Trustees, Ifon-Orolu Progressives Union, Jide Akinyooye, disregarded the declare.
Akinyooye mentioned, “Investigation must be performed into the incident however I will be able to let you know we don’t have any individual bearing this sort of title in Ifon. What we all know is that some nation were coming to the boxes already obtained through the Osun Climate Govt as a buffer zone to shop for land and that document was once made to Olufon of Ifon previous.
“Our king subsequently gave a strict directive that none of his subjects should go near the area already declared buffer zone by the government. So, no Ifon indigene was involved in such an act.”