The report has it that many people have been displaced and several houses and shops were also razed in the attack, as indigenes of the two communities have been fighting themselves in villages and disputed land in the area before today’s incident.
In a video circulating online, some concerned youth of Ifon Osun, Orolu Kingdom, were seen saying they cannot keep looking and be watching Olobu & Ilobu people burning their shops and houses at midnight any longer.
While speaking on Rédíò Afínjú’s current affairs programme ‘Gbagede Ọrọ’ , an indigene of Ifon, Adesina Mumeen, maintained that Ilobu’s residents failure to vacate the buffer zone, which the government has earmarked caused the fresh unrest.
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He, however, called on the state government under the leadership of Ademola Adeleke to take drastic steps on the said land as this would be the government’s possession.
In defense of Ilobu, the Otun Jagun of Ilobu, Chief Leke Ogunsola, denied attacking residents of Ifon.
He noted that Ifon indigenes have been attacking them on their farmland in areas like Agbere Onireke and Opapa, adding that a chief was also struck with an attempt to kidnap him but he was rescued by farmers around.
Meanwhile, security personnel have been deployed to guard the area and instill peace in the land.