Oyo state government has declared that the authority is not after the Fulani Herders but against the bandits and other criminal elements destructing the peace of the people of Oyo state.
The Governor who made the statement while receiving the new state Commissioner of police, Mrs Ngozi Onadeko, in his office, said following the arrest of some criminals in connection with the incident that led to lost of lives in Oyo State especially in Okeho, shows that most people involved in this mayhem are those from Igbira in Kogi state and some other parts of the North.
According to him, he will not declare for any tribe to leave his state saying the fight is beyond ethnic group requesting the Commissioner’s support in fighting the criminals making the state ungovernable in terms of security.
He said the purpose of which Amotekun was established was to work with other security agencies for information gathering and report same to the government for us to be able to go after the criminals trying to make the state hard for us to govern.
In a response by the New CP Onadeko, said she would work with high level of professionalism in the administration of security in the state.
She said the law abiding citizens should go about their normal businesses without fear of any kind saying her men have all returned to work to check all the excesses of the criminal elements creating havoc in different parts of the state.
Onadeko said Police Patrols that include “Operation Burst” were already in place to combat any security incident that occur especially the situation in Ibarapa and its environs where deadly attacks on the citizens were recorded.
She vowed to bring peace to the state by exploiting all security means with high level of professionalism within her capacity to curb crimes in the state.