The Oyo state chairman of the state security network, Operation Amotekun , General Kunle Togun (rtd), Sunday, disclosed that the corps in collaboration with some hunters, have flushed out two sets of herdsmen from the Opara Forest Reserve and the Oyo State Agricultural Development Programme Forest.
He made this known in a statement by the Amotekun corps information officer, Mrs Ayolola Adedoja, made available to journalists in Ibadan
Togun said the sacked herdsmen claimed they were invited by some traditional rulers, adding that the herdsmen on interrogation said one Baale from the axis invited them to the state, and produced a letter of invitation to that effect.
“On December 24, some herdsmen were seen at the Opara Forest Reserve in the Oke Ogun area of Oyo State. The attention of the Chairman of the Amotekun Corps was called to it and the Amotekun Corps swung into action.
“They were able to flush the herdsmen out of the forest reserve around 2am. The Amotekun Corps, with the assistance of one Prophet Ojoawo, who is the head of the hunters in the state, with 40 hunters drove the herdsmen out of the forest reserve and they were escorted out of Saki West to the Orelope Local Government Area of Oyo State”.
“The herdsmen were handed over to the Amotekun Corps members at Orelope who also led them out of their territory and handed them to their members at Olorunsogo in Igbeti area. The Amotekun Corps at Igbeti made sure they were escorted out of the Oyo State boundary.
“Also, another set of the herdsmen were sighted at OYSADEP Forest Reserves. They too produced evidence of invitation by one of the Oyo Obas and they too were also driven out of the forest and of the state boundary,” the statement further added.
The corps lauded the Ojoawo-led hunter group for assisting the security outfit, while soliciting for more support from the people of the state to make the Corps more effective.
