Governor Ademola Adeleke and Service Commanders of the various security agencies in Osun State have adopted stringent measures and operational plans to restore peace in Ifon-Ilobu-Erin Osun communities and permanently stop recurrence of the communal feud.
The security meeting also witnessed a separate closed door meeting with the traditional rulers and chiefs from the affected communities.
It also came with stern warnings to embrace peace or face the full wrath of the law.
Various Service Commanders at the meeting discussed the presentations by the state governor and adopted several peace measures, which are already being implemented.
Governor Adeleke had earlier called for decisive action to permanently resolve the conflict and proceeded to issue directives to the commanders for immediate action.
Part of the directives include immediate deployment of the joint task force with all necessary logistics for operational results, summoning of key ring leaders in the affected towns for interrogation and signing of peace undertaking, arrests and immediate prosecution of perpetrators of the violence, and invoking the Cybercrime Act to nab those spreading old videos to cause more violence.
The governor further threatened to suspend the traditional rulers of the affected towns if violence should resurface, while those who sign peace undertakings will face the law if communal confrontation reoccurs.
Adeleke also used the opportunity to alert the security agencies of what he termed “other security threats” in the state arising from opposition destabilisation plots, namely: Plans to ignite conflicts across motor parks in the state, sponsoring of fake local government workers group, and hoodlums protesting in the guise of teachers’ applicants protest among others.
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While commending the security agencies for their patriotic service to the state, he urged them to act on all the resolutions reached, pledging the administration’s support for all peace moves by the service commanders.
The Service Commanders at the meeting pledged to implement the security measures agreed, assuring the government and people of the affected communities of imminent restoration and sustenance of peace in the areas.
In attendance were Service Commanders from the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police, Department of State Services, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Nigeria Immigration Service, and Amotekun Security Service among others.
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