Group seeks probe of ‘harassment’ of Ogun people by troops

Our Reporter

A group, the Yoruba Leadership and Peace Initiative (TYLPI), has expressed dismay over reports that armed soldiers allegedly molested traditional rulers and indigenes of communities in the Ketu area of Ogun State, as they led back to the communities, herders previously rejected by the people because of their criminal activities.

The group, a think tank of Yoruba professionals, therefore demanded that the Ogun State Government should constitute a public judicial inquiry into what it said would amount to treason if it emerged that truly, troops, wearing army uniforms and bearing arms procured with tax payers’ money, openly took sides against a group of law-abiding Nigerians on their ancestral land.

In a statement issued at the end of its management committee meeting, TYLPI said such a judicial probe was needed to bring out the truth or otherwise in the reports.

In the statement signed by its President, Mr. Olusegun Ahmadu and the General Secretary, Arakunrin Olufemi Adefemiwa, the body decried what it called the deafening silence of top Yoruba leaders over the prolonged collapse of law and order in Ibarapa area of Oyo State, resulting in kidnapping, rape and killing of citizens, particularly at Igangan and its adjoining communities.