A councillor has been killed in a communal clash at Koseru community in Odigbo local government area of Ondo State.
The slain councillor until his killing was representing a ward in the council area.
The unnamed lawmaker was killed in Koseru, a farm settlement, alongside a vigilante member identified as Kayode by gunmen who invaded the community on Saturday.
Their killers who were believed to be Ikale youths, report said, were on a reprisal mission to revenge the killing of a woman from a gunshot at Kajola village, Okitipupa local government.
They also destroyed some farmlands.
The Special Adviser to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on Security Matters and Commander of the Ondo Amotekun Corps, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, said on the incident: “There has been an age- long crisis in Koseru between Oluku family of Ikale in Okitipupa and the Oyo/Osun farmers living in Odigbo local government. The Oyo/Osun are predominantly cash crop farmers. They have been fighting over ownership of the land.
“The fresh crisis erupted when a one women in Kajola was shot. We are suspecting a reprisal attack of some Ikale youths who mobilised themselves and launched attack on the unsuspecting Osun/Oyo farmers. There is a Councillor representing Oyo/Osun axis that was killed in the fracas. A vigilance member and not Amotekun was killed. Their corpses have been deposited at the hospital. Amotekun, Police and the Army maintain vigilance overnight to ensure peace returns. The attackers destroyed more of farmlands.”
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