Police in Osun say there’s no truth in reports of alleged fresh crisis erupting in Ife and Modakeke communities on Sunday night.
Osun State Police Public Relations Officer, Yemisi Opalola, stated this in a statement on Monday, titled, ‘Osun Police debunks report of fresh crisis in Ife/Modakeke – Police’
The PPRO said that the local vigilance groups guarding the area were on their routine show of force to assure the people of the area of their safety.
According to the statement, “It has become increasingly necessary to keep you abreast of the incident that occurred in Modakeke last night, 16th May, 2021 and has been trending on social media.
“I want to categorically state that, it was an erroneous belief that some people came to attack people from Famia axis. The news was fake and a blatant lie!
“The true situation as gathered is that; the local vigilantes guiding the area against thieves and hoodlums were on their routine show of force as any other places, to alert the people of the community of their presence and assure them of safety. But because of what happened recently, people became apprehensive, thinking they were under attack.”
The statement also quoted the state Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, as assuring the people of the state of his “unrelenting commitment to ensure adequate security of the state, which he is overseeing without any fear of attack or molestation.”
The state police boss, therefore, appealed to everyone to “timely report any strange movement around them or anyone suspected to be of questionable character”.