Herders/farmers’ clashes in Ondo are being resolved, says Adeleye | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

The Chairman, Amotekun Council of Commanders, Southwest Security Network and Special Adviser to Ondo State Governor on Security Matters, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye, speaks with OLUWASEUN AKINGBOYE in Akure on the emerging security challenges facing the region and sustainability of the Amotekun Corps. These farmers can no longer go to farm, resulting in shortages of food, such that you have money and there is nothing to buy with it.

After that, we now went into enforcement and that was where the problem really started. We were attacked initially and a lot of things went into it.We were able to bring to book over 800 herders. We went on about 560 massive operations to rescue farmers before the advent of the Anti-grazing Law.

This enabled us to know that they are there and if there is any criminal activity around there, we hold them responsible. This is mainly why most of these herders don’t want to register. But substantially, we have been able to handle a lot of such. Again, we found out that after the #EndSARS crises, weapons got into so many wrong hands. Akure that has the history of requisite peace became haven for criminals.

By and large, we were able to bring a lot of sanity to the state. In the last five years, between October and December, it used to be feast of criminal activities in Ondo state. But, we did massive deployment to all control points to check the vice. We created 15 major control points in Akure and four in each of the local governments, such that the criminals cannot even get out of the state.

In the last five weeks, we had joint operations in Ose and Owo local government areas. We have been combing the forests to arrest criminals. A similar operation took place about two weeks ago in Akoko and all our border areas. So, I can tell you that we have very robust relationship with them. Though that is not to say there is no issue, they are manageable issues.

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