*Decries Igangan Killings
A former governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala has charged Governor Seyi Makinde to re-jig internal security arrangement to address the incessant killings.
Akala also decried the Saturday’s attack and killings in Igangan area of the state, saying it is barbaric and unwarranted.
He said that the attack, leading to killings and wanton destruction of property in the area, called for serious re-introspection by the state government.
In a statement by his media assistant, Tolu Mustapha, on Monday in Ibadan, the governor said that the unwarranted killings called to question the fate of other citizens spread across other zones in the state.
The police command in the state had on Sunday confirmed the death of 11 people in Saturday’s night attack in Igangan community, a town in Ibarapa north local government area.
The suspected gunmen had invaded the town on Saturday around 11:10 p.m. on motorcycles, and allegedly opened fire on innocents’ citizens and burnt some property.
The police public relations officer in the state, DSP Adewale Osifeso, had said in a statement that a total of 11 people, including some of the assailants, were confirmed dead in the incident.
Alao-Akala said that the issue of insecurity had gone beyond ethnic profiling, calling for the deployment of security intelligence strategy.
the former governor said that such needed deployment was necessary to unravel the root cause of the recurring security breach, to ensure it was totally nipped in the bud.
Alao-Akala, however, called on the state government to as a matter of urgency to re-gig its internal security arrangement to meet up with this emergency.
