Ekiti State Government has warned communities experiencing inter- communal boundary disputes against resorting to thuggery and vandalism.
The Deputy Governor Chief Monisade Afuye, gave the directive in Ado Ekiti while interfacing with stakeholders from Iloro, Odo- Owa and Ejiyan Ekiti in Ijero Local Government Area over escalating boundary dispute among the communities .
Chief Afuye said whoever found destroying crops on disputed farmlands would be arrested and prosecuted accordingly.
Chief Afuye said that some of the issues of criminalities being recorded on the disputed farmland would not be tolerated by Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s administration, to avert bloodshed and destruction of property.
Corroborating the Deputy Governor’s position, the Surveyor General of Ekiti State, Mr Adebayo Faleto, said the Boundary Technical Committee would visit the disputed land and ascertain the ownership to prevent unnecessary crisis.
The traditional rulers of the towns: Oluloro of Iloro Ekiti, Oba Olufemi Olugbesoye , the Olowa of Odo Owa, Oba Ayorinde Oyedeji and Obalaaye of Ejiyan Ekiti, Oba Adesesan Adepoju, promised to work with the technical committee to resolve the dispute.
However, the monarchs in their respective submissions insisted that the lands in the area belonged to their communities from time immemorial and that history supported such position.
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