IDI ARERE FRACAS: OLUBADAN CALLS ON COMMUNITY HEADS TO ASSIST IN POLICE INVESTIGATION

Hear him ‘We are here today to deliberate the way forward on security issues, we should all be monitoring all the people living in our areas and we should at least have the knowledge of what the person is doing for living and what he or she does in day and night.”

“Security job is not only meant for the police, we should all be a stakeholders in it, we should be involves in a security matters because it is a matter that concerns us, most especially the affected Balee’s and Mogaji’s should be able to get useful information that will help the police because if you help the police you are helping yourself. ” Olubadan explained.

Speaking at the meeting the Mogaji of  Sodende family of Idi Arere Alhaji Sodende Gbadamosi said “on this issue, I think we should first identify those hoodlums, give their names to the police and allow the police to do their job, then we should give police the maximum support to see that those arrested were well punished so that they can serve as a deterrent to others and I think this will go a long way to help us put an end to this ugly situation. “

Also speaking at the meeting was Chief Oyebamiji Mashood Mogaji of Akinyemi Compound Abebi in Ibadan, who said unemployment of the youth was responsible for the incident, noting that abuse of hard drugs by the youths leads to the incident.

“You can see that we all have role to play in this by constant praying for them, most of those boys are our boys and they are not ghost, they leave within us, we must always find a way to counsel them on the moral and the rightful good way of life.”

In his remark, Chief Mashood Olawoyin who is the Mogaji of Olawoyin Opo Ile Osa said that ‘we have to be serious about this because most of those boys have started training the younger ones, just of recent in my area, a boy of ten years old was smoking Indian hemp and people were seem not to take note of it’.

“I think we the Mogaji and Baales should be meeting periodically, and we should start shifting the venue of the meetings around our various compounds to discuss a way forward on any issues that is affecting our areas, and this will help us to address most issues especially the issues of security.” Olawoyin said.