The residents of Ajowa-Akoko in the Akoko North West Local Government Area of Ondo State have implored the federal and state governments to take immediate action to stop the escalating occurrences of insecurity in the community.
Currently, there are certain security concerns in the border town of Ajowa-Akoko in Ondo State.
Recently, kidnapping of the community’s monarch from his palace inside the community was carried out by armed men.
Four Kogi State Polytechnic students were taken hostage while traveling to the community for the Yuletide festival a few days after the monarch was freed by his captors.
The community’s spokesperson, Mr. Jacob Adegoke, lamented the awful experience that locals had undergone over the previous two years at the hands of criminals who they said had killed, wounded, raped, and kidnapped their people during a town hall meeting to discuss the issue.
Adegoke requested more security from all levels of government in the village, which he said was the last one in the State to border the north of the nation.
The former Anglican bishop and chairman of the Ajowa community, Rt. Revd. Ezekiel Dahunsi, commended Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu for increasing security with the Amotekun Corps but urged more assistance in Ajowa-Akoko to protect locals from intimidation of any type.
The Oloso of Oso-Ajowa, Oba Jimoh Omoola, believes that military personnel should be deployed as well to support the local security system.
He expediently called the creation of an Ajowa divisional police headquarters.
