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Ile Ife Crisis: Panel Receives 140 Memorandum From Victims

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...the Ooni of Ile Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, left, with Governor Aregbesola...still discussing the Ife Crisis?

As the panel of inquiry on disturbance of public peace, set up by Osun state governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, to unravel the causes of crisis that ensued between the Hausa and Ife people on March 8, began its sitting on Wednesday, the panel disclosed that it has received 140 memorandum from victims.

The panel, headed by Justice Moshood Adeigbe, during the sitting at Oba Okunade Sijuade Memorial Hall, Enuwa, Ile-Ife, appealed to the petitioners to assist the panel in discharging its duty within the stipulated time.

He reminded them that the governor set up the panel for truth and justice as well as gave them four weeks to submit its findings.

Meanwhile, indigenes of Ile-Ife, have been bombarding the panel with various affidavits, claiming loss of properties worth millions of naira in the March 8 mayhem.

One of the petitioners, Reverend Rotimi Omisakin, told the panel that his church and shop were burnt by unknown Hausa boys, saying he would need N150,000 to repair the church.

He said, “I was on the prayer mountain when my wife called me that some Hausa boys came to our house and burnt her shop and church. I want to appeal to the government to give me N150,000 that I need to repair my church.”

Also, one Rotimi Fabunmi, who claimed to represent his stepmother, alleged that properties worth N480,000 were burnt in his stepmother’s shop.

Asked why his stepmother did not appear before the panel, Fabunmi said she was rushed out of the country due to the shock she had when she heard that her shops were burnt.

He said kolanut and palm oil that worth N480,000 were burnt by the unidentified hoodlums during the crisis.

However, the Secretary of the panel, Bisi Babalola,  said the panel will be sitting everyday so as to meet up with the four weeks deadline, given to it by the governor assuring that panel would be fair to everybody.

Packaged by Bunmi Oladejo

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