Posted by Residents of Ajowa-Akoko in Ondo State’s Akoko North West Local Government Area have called with the federal and state governments to take immediate action to stop the community’s growing insecurity.
Ondo State’s border town of Ajowa-Akoko has recently had some security problems.
A few days ago, armed men took the community’s monarch from his palace inside the community.
Four students from Kogi State Polytechnic were kidnapped while traveling to the community for the Yuletide festival a few days after the monarch was freed by his captors.
The community’s spokesperson, Mr. Jacob Adegoke, lamented the terrible experience residents had undergone over the previous two years at the hands of criminals who they said had killed, wounded, raped, and kidnapped their people during a town hall meeting to discuss the issue.
Adegoke urged all levels of government to improve security in the neighborhood, which he claimed is the only neighborhood in the State that borders the country’s northern region.
The Chairman of the Ajowa community and a former Anglican bishop, Rt. Revd. Ezekiel Dahunsi, praised Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu for bolstering security with the Amotekun Corps but urged more assistance in Ajowa-Akoko to protect locals from intimidation of any type.
According to Oba Jimoh Omoola, the Oloso of Oso-Ajowa, military forces should be sent as well to reinforce the local security system.
He demanded that a divisional police headquarters be built at Ajowa.