Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo state, has appealed to
residents of Shasha community not to resort to self-help, as efforts are on to
resolve the crisis.
He also promised to compensate all residents who lost their
shops, houses and wares to the violence in Shasha area of Ibadan, the state
capital.
The crisis, which started on Thursday, was said to have been
caused by a face-off between a Yoruba and Hausa resident.
Speaking when he visited the area in the company of Rotimi
Akeredolu, his Ondo counterpart, on Sunday, Makinde promised to give
palliatives to those whose businesses were affected during the crisis.
He called on the warring parties to eschew violence,
cautioning them that resorting to self-help is not an option.
The governor added that all the culprits will be fished out
and brought to book.
“You have been living together peacefully and all I am
pleading to you is, no matter what is making anyone angry, we will solve it
with patience,” Makinde said.
“I was reluctant to declare curfew here, because I feel the
economic wellbeing of everyone here is important, and because this is where you
get what you use to feed yourselves. I will engage with your leaders this
evening. One thing is, if you allow those who don’t have anything to lose here
to blow this matter out of proportion, no one will be able to say where the
crisis will end. By the grace of God, I pray we don’t lose any more lives.
“We must not lose any life needlessly anymore. What the
government will do to ensure that those whose houses, shops were burnt, we will
rebuild immediately. But please, I beg of you, let us stop fighting with
ourselves. I can assure you that we will deal with the situation.
“We must continue to maintain the peace here. Those who are
hoodlums here will be dealt with, but those who are law-abiding will be
compensated for what they have lost.”
On his part, Akeredolu said he was in the state on behalf of
all the south-west governors to appeal to the people to embrace peace.
He urged the people to think about their family members in
other parts of the country and put an end to the crisis.
“I have come here on behalf of my colleagues in Ekiti,
Lagos, Osun and Ogun. All of them have sent messages. Ogun has its own crisis
it is battling with, so does Lagos. But as the chairman, I decided to come
around to appeal to us,” Akeredolu said.
“Though we are here in our fatherland, our own sons and
daughters are in another person’s fatherland. So, let us think about this and
continue to live in peace with one another. We don’t need to fight ourselves.
“We have security agencies that you can call their attention
to any issue that could cause crisis. Let us not take the law into our hands.”
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