Adewale Giwa
Ex-militants have given the Naval authorities two weeks to vacate their base in Igbokoda, Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, following the alleged killing of six of their members on Sunday by Naval personnel.
The ex-militants, who spoke through two of their leaders, Dele Olaoluwa and Victor Semore, who are also relatives of two of the deceased, Afro Medoye and Sina Ogono “aka Rambo”, described the action of the naval officers as barbaric and inhuman. They called on President Goodluck Jonathan to order the transfer of all Naval officers in the area.
“We hereby give all naval officers operating in Igbokoda two weeks to vacate the area or there will be crisis,” he said.
Six ex-militants were allegedly shot dead by naval officers attached to the area when they wanted to force themselves into the Naval operational base, where empowerment programme organized by a lawmaker in the House of Representatives, Raphael Nomiye, was to take place.
It was gathered that an argument ensued between the youth and some Naval officers, and that in the process, the latter opened fire.
Reacting, Public Relations Officer of the Ondo State Police Command, Mr. Adeniran Aremu, said there was no need for the ex-militant action, adding that the command is working hard to solve the problem.
“We have embarked on a process to solve the problem. As I’m talking to you, we have embarked on community policing. Besides, we have made consultations with community leaders, traditional rulers and other stakeholders to ensure that the problem is resolved once and for all”, he said
Daily Trust
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Please,use the spelling of my facebook address to get in toush to me!here I speak,in our local government i.e ilaje local government,crisis use to occur every year,and this link to the killing of innocent there ! Am at ondo state igbokoda last year which is 2011,working on my uncle land.my uncle bought this land from the community and he have all the document of this land.like I said,am working there with many workers.a group of militant came there asking me what am I doing there,and I don’t understand what there actually talking about.before I got to realized that they are there claim this land from the community just for a Man that stand for them as God father,in short they nearly kill me there,infact,almost buried me alive be my uncle get there apologized for them to set me free.in the extent of this,spoiled and screen me out of the nigeria army recruitment training. because of the plenty injury that they ave give on this land issue. picys,when they come,am not dragging with them.as a matter of fact,what is the government doing about it?ok,let’s direct to the governor of ondo state.this case is still in the magistrate court at Akure since then till now and there no solution to it.because those boyz were still existing on this land issue.if any person bought land from the community.he or her ‘ll surely re-bought it with huge amount of money from them to avoid there tragedy. With due respect! I want to know what the government is gonna do about it now?