ADELEKE EASES CURFEW AHEAD OF WASSCE AMID COMMUNAL TENSIONS
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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, on Tuesday, directed that the previous 17-hour curfew he imposed on the three warring communities of Ilobu, Ifon and Erin Osun be relaxed to 12 hours.
The governor linked his decision to the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, starting on April 24, saying the situation would not be allowed to impair students’ education.
The communities had been recently embroiled in violent clashes that claimed many lives and left several buildings razed by hoodlums.
In a statement on Tuesday, the state’s Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, said the governor’s decision to relax the curfew was based on reports of gradual return of peace to the affected communities.
He also said the adjustment in the time frame of the curfew would allow students sitting the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination and the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations to be able to do so without any form of hindrance.
“The relaxation of the curfew is sequel to the different security reports reaching the governor that the much-expected ceasefire is taking centre stage on a daily basis.
“Accordingly, the governor has directed that the curfew should, beginning from today, Tuesday (08/4/2025) commence from 7 pm to 7 am on a daily basis until further notice,” Alimi said.
The statement quoted Adeleke as reaffirming his administration’s commitment to doing everything morally and officially possible to bring the communal fracas in the three communities to an amicable end.
He commended traditional rulers of the three communities and their subjects for living up to the desired expectations in ensuring a gradual return to peace, urging them to sustain the gains already recorded.
Adeleke further said, “In the same vein, the new trend in the time frame of the curfew, will also allow our children who want to write WAEC, NECO and JAMB Examinations to be able to do so without any form of hindrance, as we cannot allow their future to be mortgaged.
“However, I am still directing that the joint security team, comprising the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, should continue to maintain their usual 24-hour surveillance to ensure zero tolerance on any act of lawlessness.
“This is not without reiterating the need for all stakeholders to cooperate by embracing the much-sought peace in the three communities as anybody, group or community caught or found wanting in fomenting or aiding the crisis in one way or the other will be made to face the music in line with the dictates of the law of Nigeria.”
He subsequently directed the 100-member crisis resolution committee on Ifon, Ilobu and Erin Osun communal mayhem set up by this administration ago to expedite their assignments so as to find a lasting solution to the problem.
Emphasising that his administration and the entire people of Osun state would not settle for less from the committee in giving a leeway towards ensuring a lasting resolution to the age-long communal disputes, Adeleke urged “all sons and daughters of the three communities at home and in the diaspora to cooperate with me and my administration to bring this crisis to an end once and for all.”
“It is only in an atmosphere of peace and unity that the much-sought growth and development can be achieved in the three communities of Ifon, Ilobu and Erin Osun as well as the entire state,” he stated.
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