Ogun Allegations Of Encroachment, Attacks, Fake, Says Ondo

Ondo State government has disputed the claims by the Ogun state government that its citizens are encroaching on Ogun territory and launching attacks on Ogun indigenes in Irokun Kingdom in Irokun kingdom in Ogun-Waterside local government area.

The state government described the allegations of encroachment into some communities in Ogun State as unfounded, insisting that those areas in question constitutionally belonged to Ondo State.

Ogun State government, through the state Deputy Governor, Mrs Noimot Salako-Oyedele, recently alleged that the government of Ondo State attacked its citizens in Irokun kingdom in Ogun-Waterside local government area.

According to her, the encroachment on Ogun communities comes with assaults on the state citizens, most especially residents of Irokun kingdom in Ogun-Waterside Local Government Area, and the culprits were allegedly from the Ilaje end of Ondo State.

But in a swift response, the Ondo state government described the allegation as” patently false and has become a pattern of alarming propaganda by the Ogun State government as a strategy to reinforce their false territorial claim on Irokun, Obinehin, Idigbengben and Araromi seaside.”

Speaking through the commissioner for Information and Orientation,  Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, the government further described “the declaration by the Deputy Governor of Ogun State that “on no account will the Ogun State government cede an inch of this land to Ondo State” as comedic.”

Addressing journalists in Akure, the state capital  Ademola-Olateju, stated that the admonition of the Deputy Governor of Ogun State urging the Ondo state government to call her citizens to order on allegations that they were attacking their counterparts from Ogun State and linking same to the administrative actions of the state government “is deceptive. “

While saying that the state government “is ever conscious of and irrevocably committed to the fundamental duty of protecting the lives and properties of its citizens’’, Ademola-Olateju pointed out that the state government is irrevocably committed to securing the lives and properties of its residents.

Her words: “With high sense of responsibility that Ondo and Ogun states are sister states of the same Yoruba ethnic stock. For the most part, we have been under common political structures since the creation of the Western Region.’’