The Osun state government has raised the alarm over the
“influx of some persons” from the north, particularly Zamfara state.
Addressing reporters on Wednesday, Adeyanju Binuyo
(pictured), deputy chief of staff to Gboyega Oyetola, the governor, asked Osun
residents not to panic as “adequate security measures have been put in place to
arrest the situation”.
He said all those from the north who had escaped into the
state through hiding in trucks carrying essential goods had been tracked and
would be sent back to their home states immediately.
Binuyo said the government had mandated the Amotekun corps
to effectively man all entry points into the state and ensure that trucks bringing
essential goods into the state are properly checked and monitored till they
offload their goods and immediately escorted out of the state.
“Government is aware of a huge influx of non- Osun residents
into the state, especially from Zamfara. They were coming majorly through the
Ondo axis, accompanying trucks that are carrying food materials purportedly to
be sold around the South West generally,” he said.
“The intelligence that we’ve gathered in the last few days
is such that they usually have two or a maximum of three people attached to a
truck to assist in discharging the goods. But now we have sometimes ten of them
hidden among the goods.
“Sometimes the trucks would stop and drop some of them off
along Ife express road where they are received by their fellow northerners
already resident in the state.
“The government has been receiving a lot of such reports
most especially now that Amotekun has been properly set up. This portends a
great danger especially at a time like this when Osun is doing everything to
avoid community transmission of COVID-19. This is not the time to be reckless
and allow safety or security breaches at our borders.
“The newly inaugurated Amotekun with the support of the
police and army have been mandated to identify and man all the entry points,
carry out proper checks on the trucks coming in the name of carrying food or
relief materials and make sure that anyone found hiding in these trucks are
immediately returned to their states.”
Binuyo maintained that all travels to and from the state
remained banned while the land boundaries would “be on lockdown round the
clock”
He said any security officers caught compromising at any
boundary would be made to face the full wrath of the law as a deterrent to
others while vehicles caught in violation of the orders would “be forfeited to
the state and the passengers prosecuted”.
“As for the officers who compromise the borders, the
government and the Commissioner of Police have agreed that any officer found
wanting in this regard will be punished and used as a scapegoat,” he said.
“All mining sites in the state have also been closed down.
Now that Amotekun has been set up, the officers would be deployed to comb the
sites and flush out illegal miners. This is to ensure that our mines dont
become dangerous attractions to these people sneaking into our state. All these
are what we are enforcing to ensure that the illegal elements do not infiltrate
the state further.”
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