The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed a deep concern over the rate at which extra-judicial killings are taking place particularly in Osogbo, the state capital, and all the other parts of the state.
The conviction that the conclusion of the 15th August, 2026 governorship election of which the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC declared Governor Ademola Adeleke its winner would bring an end to the killings has become a mirage.
It is worrisome that the Osun sub-national has become a killing field of fellow human beings which has made the people from other states to dread coming to the state as the cheapest thing in the state appears to be extra-judicial death.
The situation whereby the state is always in the news for negative reports is enough reason to give the genuine stakeholders in the Osun State project a sleepless night as what affects the part will definitely not spare the whole.
Just yesterday, Friday, two persons were reportedly killed at Owo-eba area, near Ilesa Garage, Osogbo, the state capital, in a cruel manner by a group of unidentified militant hoodlums who used guns, matchets, knives and cudgels to sniff life out of the victims in a bizarre manner. One of the victims is identified as Small Rugged in the thuggery circle in the state while the second victim is known as Seyi Osha.
Other victim’s are Mascot, a Personal Assistant to Small Rugged; Spirit; Agba Kali, a passer-by and others who were seriously wounded in the attack that occurred in front of Peka’s Bar.
We, as a party, sympathise with the inhabitants of the state over the activities of these men who are fugitive to justice that have illegally turned Osun State to a jungle where power is might.
The current state of insecurity in the state is making nonsense of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended which stipulates the protection of the lives and property of the people by the state government.
The Governor Ademola Adeleke-led administration should sit up to ensure that the people of the state are not exposed to extra-judicial killings as the stigma and negative label that the unsavoury development has given to the state is worrisome to all the right-thinking members of the society.
The police and other sister security services too should ensure that they double up their efforts to ensure security of lives and property of the people in the state as there can not be any acceptable excuses for their non- performance.
The thinking in the society is that each time there is an extra-judicial killing, it simply translates to the fact that the state government and the statutory security services have failed in their constitutional responsibility.
We shall not welcome any excuses for exposing the people of the state to extra-judicial killings as the extant Constitution of the nation frowns against killings of fellow human beings without being found culpable for such by going through the full cycle of the judicial process.
e-SIGNED:
Mogaji KOLA OLABISI, Osun State APC Director of Media and Information.
