Akinrun: Police warn against violence, threaten to arrest rioters

Akinrun: Police warn against violence, threaten to arrest rioters

Osun State Police command has warned the people of Ikirun, headquarters of Ifelodun Local Government Area of Osun State against violence over the appointment of the new Akinrun of Ikirun, Oba Olalekan Yunus Akadiri by the state government.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Faleye Sunday Olaleye handed down the warning at a peace parley held at the comman headquarters in Osogbo on Tuesday.

The Police boss who met with the warring groups including prominent indigenes of the town and some traditional chiefs declared that he would not hesitate to arrest any individual who violates his order.

He advised any aggrieved individual or group of people to approach the court to seek redress, rather than engaging in breakdown of law and order.

The Police commissioner who frowned at the crisis which erupted in Ikirun as a result of the emergence of Oba Akadiri, warned against further mayhem in the town, just as he read the riot acts to residents of the town.

He cautioned members of the various ruling houses in the town against violent and charged them to respect the laws of the land.

It was gathered that the parties at the meeting resolved to embrace peace and allow harmony in the town.