The boundary dispute between the Eda Oniyo neighborhood in Ilejemeje Native Authorities Space of Ekiti State and the Obo Ayegunle city in Kwara State claimed one life on Saturday, whereas a yet-to-be ascertained variety of folks sustained accidents.
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the boundary dispute escalated when armed males from Obo Ayegunle allegedly attacked Eda Oniyo on Saturday.
It was learnt that within the ensuing melee, one individual from the Eda Oniyo neighborhood was reportedly killed earlier than troopers, police personnel, and members of the Amotekun Corps bought to the scene to curtail the disaster.
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Recall that the Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Monisade Afuye, had, on Thursday final week, interfaced with the Eda Oniyo neighborhood over the festering boundary dispute between the 2 cities.
Of their submissions on the parley, the normal head of Eda Oniyo, Oba Awolola, had complained about how some folks from Obo Ayegunle allegedly invaded his city and began arresting folks indiscriminately and clamped them in detention over an enormous plot of land situated between the 2 cities.
Oba Awolola had disclosed that the Obo Ayegunle farmers had been paying royalty to Eda Oniyo on the land for many years however that they stopped lately and allegedly started making efforts to take over the land from his folks forcefully.
The monarch had defined that the land beneath dispute belonged to the Eda Oniyo primarily based on the Nationwide Boundary Fee (NBC) decision in regards to the presence of Ondo State’s pillar on the land and backed by a doc gazetted as authorized discover No 126 of 1954 beneath the Western area.
The normal ruler mentioned that Obo Ayegunle relocated to their current location in 1927, whereas Eda Oniyo Ekiti had settled within the city because the 14th Century, sharing boundaries with Etan and Eruku in Kwara State.
“In 2008, there was a gathering referred to as by NBC between the 2 communities the place some resolutions had been made in favour of Ekiti that the authorized discover No 126 of 1954 needs to be allowed to face as a result of it stays an extant doc and is but to be amended.
“They’ll’t use risk and violence to retrieve that land. That boundary can’t be modified orally. They don’t have something to controvert the 1954 doc. That land belonged to Eda Oniyo, and what Obo Ayegunle was doing was an try by Kwara State to rob Ekiti of its inheritance,” the normal ruler mentioned.
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Giving additional clarification on the dispute on the assembly with Mrs Afuye, the Everlasting Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Olugbenga Odesanmi, had revealed that the matter could possibly be resolved with the federal government’s intervention, saying the land was about to be taken over as a result of it was leased for too lengthy by Eda Oniyo folks.
Mr Odesanmi added that Obo Ayegunle had expanded from their current location to the land beneath dispute, stressing that there could possibly be a necessity for the NBC to intervene and resolve the matter amicably.
In his submission, the state’s Deputy surveyor-general, Rufus Gbadura, had mentioned the land beneath dispute bore the pillars that demarcated the boundary between the Western area and the Northern province, which additional attested to the truth that it belonged to Ekiti State.
Nevertheless, in a counter transfer, the Obo Ayegunle Descendants Union, in a letter addressed to Governor Biodun Oyebanji, additionally accused Eda Oniyo Ekiti of intruding into their lands and inflicting pointless rebel.
In the meantime, the Ekiti State authorities has appealed to residents of Eda Oniyo to stay calm over the assault on the neighborhood.
The state Commissioner for Data, Taiwo Olatunbosun, in an announcement made out there to journalists in Ado Ekiti, assured that the scenario had been introduced beneath management.
The commissioner, nonetheless, disclosed that extra troops had moved to the world to guard the neighborhood whereas the military formation in Kwara State has been contacted to deploy troops alongside the Kwara facet of the border to curtail additional assaults from either side.
He expressed condolences to the household of the deceased and prayed for the fast restoration of these injured within the incident.
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