Six herdsmen were in the wee hours of Sunday murdered in cold blood by yet to be identified gunmen in Oyo State.
The incident occurred when the gunmen invaded Wasinmi village, Irewole Local Government Area of Osun State.
It was gathered that the gunmen opened fire on the six herders who were member of the same family.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Osun, Yemisi Opalola, confirmed the tragic incident.
She said the Commissioner of Police in the State, Wale Olokode, and some detectives have moved to the village to fish out the perpetrators.
The Osun State Coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress, Prince Deji Aladesawe said, members of OPC, hunters and police have been deployed to the settlement for the arrest of the suspects.
While answering questions from our Correspondent, Aladesawe noted that there was no dispute reported from the locals earlier.
Meanwhile, the Osun State Commissioner of Police, CP Olawale Olokode has disclosed that the attack on a family at Wasinmi village in Ikire was not connected to any clash between farmers and herders.
The Police boss, on Sunday, said the preliminary investigations by the Police revealed that the killing was not a farmer, herders clash.
Olokode disclosed this through a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Yemisi Opalola and made available to newsmen on Sunday.
The Police boss who visited the scene of the incident for an ‘on-the-spot security assessment’, noted that the Command has commenced discrete investigations into the incident and already carrying out an intensive manhunt for the perpetrators to bring them to justice.
However, the Osun State Government also condemned the killings.
The Deputy Governor of Osun State, Benedict Alabi, who paid a condolence visit to the bereaved family on Sunday morning, described the killings as disheartening and unfortunate.
Alabi described the incident as a case of brutal assassination, adding that the perpetrators would be brought to book in no distant time.
meanwhile, the Osun State Government has reacted to the killing of six members of the same family by unknown gunmen at Wasimi community in Irewole Local Government area of the state.
The deceased, according to sources, were said to be Fulani settlers. They were attacked before daybreak. The community is along the Ife/Ibadan expressway.
Although the police did not confirm in its statement that the victims were Fulanis, the spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola, said the death “is not connected with any clash between farmers and herders as speculated in some sections of the media.” Opalola said the Commissioner of Police in Osun State, Olawale Olokode, visited the scene of the incident for an ‘on-the-spot security assessment.’
The Commissioner said the police had commenced investigations into the incident and already carrying out intensive manhunt for the perpetrators to bring them to justice.
Also, the state’s Deputy Governor, Benedict Alabi, who visited the scene on Sunday evening, described the incident as a case of brutal assassination.
He added that the perpetrators would be brought to book in no distant time.
Alabi was accompanied to the community by the state’s Commissioner for Finance, Bola Oyebamiji, and the Special Adviser to the Governor on Security, Abiodun Ige.
