Oyo, Osun boundary dispute: Sheathe your swords, Oyo govt warns agitators

Trending video of Boko Haram penetration misleading, accidental constabulary

Oyo State Government has warned agitators successful the Oyo/Osun bound quality to sheathe their swords. In a connection by the Commissioner for Information, Dotun Oyelade, the authorities urged some sides of the disagreement to halt the blasted crippled and let the 2 authorities governments to proceed mature discussions connected the solution to the onshore dispute.

Oyelade said that the 2 authorities governments believed that the protracted onshore quality is not intractable and accepted institutions should not beryllium a clog successful the instrumentality of peaceful resolution.

According to him, Governors Seyi Makinde and Ademola Adeleke are cooperating afloat with the National Boundary Commission done their representatives and judge that an amicable solution volition beryllium reached soon.

MEANWHILE, the Oyo State Police Command has said that the trending video that Boko Haram had invaded Oyo Town is misleading. According to a connection signed by Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), CSP Osifeso Adewale, connected behalf of the Commissioner of Police, the video is simply a recycled worldly by mischief makers.

Osifeso said that the enactment was a deliberate effort by definite individuals with malicious intent, seeking to dispersed falsehoods and incite fearfulness and unrest wrong the community.

The connection work successful part: “The Oyo State Police Command wishes to code the caller circulation of misleading accusation connected societal media regarding a video that purportedly shows an attempted penetration of Oyo State by Boko Haram elements intercepted on the Ibadan-Lagos Expressway.

“The video, which allegedly depicts articulated trucks filled with motorcycles and weapons, has been verified arsenic a recycled clip from 2022. We privation to guarantee the nationalist that this does not airs immoderate existent menace to the information and information of Oyo State. “The re-emergence of this video, peculiarly during a play of enhanced security, suggests a deliberate effort by definite individuals with malicious intent, seeking to dispersed falsehoods and incite fearfulness and unrest wrong the community.

“To further substantiate our assertion regarding the video’s outdated nature, we enactment that the Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) astatine the Ilero Divisional Police Headquarters, DSP Segun Adeyemo, who appeared concisely successful the video, retired from the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) successful August 2024 aft a agelong play of meritorious service.”

The command, therefore, reaffirmed its unwavering committedness to safeguarding the information and information of each residents successful Oyo State. It besides urged citizens to follow a cautious attack erstwhile sharing information, ensuring that it is thoroughly verified done credible sources earlier dissemination connected societal media and different platforms, thereby mitigating the hazard of nationalist alarm and disruption to societal order. The bid urged the nationalist to stay vigilant and disregard specified antics.