Ogun State House of Assembly has sought the intervention of the State Government and security agencies to address the alleged installation of an Ondo traditional ruler in Irokun community, located in the Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of the State.
The Speaker, Oludaisi Elemide, sought the intervention on Friday, during an inter-agency engagement held at the State House of Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
He praised the government for the infrastructural advancement of the State, soliciting the extension of the projects to all border and rural communities in the State to further prevent invasion from neighbouring states.
Elemide enjoined the State Police Command to take full charge of security measures in the area to prevent any illegal installation of traditional rulers, saying that such illegality could threaten the existing peace in the boundary communities.
Earlier in his presentation, the State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hamsat, said that more infrastructural development within the boundary communities would ward off incursion from the neighbouring State, while soliciting more security presence in the communities.
On his part, the traditional rulers, led by the Ojotunmoro of Abigi, Oba Ogunye, and the monarch whose kingdom was affected, the Onirokun of Irokun, Oba Balogun, noted that more infrastructural development in the area would help prevent the invaders, thanking the State Government through the Office of the Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako Oyedele, for the different interventions in the past on the same issue.
The meeting, which had in attendance concerned stakeholders, included officials from the State Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, led by the State Commissioner, Ganiu Hamsat; representative of the State Boundary Commission/State Surveyor General, Surveyor Abodunrin Omotoso; the traditional rulers from Ogun Waterside led by the Ojotunmoro of Abigi, Oba Olusegun Ogunye; the Commissioner of Police, represented by Assistant Commissioner of Police (Operations) Olufemi Adaramola; and the Onirokun of Irokun Kingdom, Oba Buari Balogun, amongst others.
