Environmental Sanitation Exercise Turns Bloody, Soldiers Kill Two,Youths Raze Police Station

The monthly “Environmental Sanitation” exercise in Ondo state turned bloody at Igbotako township in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo state on Saturday as soldiers posted to the council area shot and killed at least two people in the community.

A resident in the area told SaharaReporters that Mr. Niyi Pirisola, the local government council chairman led soldiers form the Barracks in okitipupa  to enforce the exercise in the community.

The source gave names of the two deceased persons as; Yomi Akinyemi and Sunday Adejuwon both youths in the area who tried to resist the soldiers from seizing  wares of poor women  heading to the market.

The duo died as a result of the bullet fired by the rampaging soldiers while trying to scare away residents; the source added on the telephone.

Apart from the two deceased, a little girl was knocked over by a motorcycle and  woman died in the melee when the council boss drove and escape a mob that had mobilized to resist the soldiers.

Reports revealed that many people were badly injured as violence erupted in the community.

In retaliation, the youths  made attempt to attack the LG boss and he immediately fled  the scene in his official vehicle with the help of a policeman but while rushing to get out of the area the chairman’s vehicle knocked over another  woman, a resident narrated on the phone.

A member of the vigilante group in the area, Omogbemi Oyekan,  told a SaharaReporters correspondent in a local language that residents refused to observe the sanitation exercise because the day fell on the community’s market day.

“Today was our Market day and we have to sell our goods and eke out a living. Even people from other parts of the state and neighboring community have traveled down since Friday, slept over night till this morning (Saturday) to buy goods and farm produce from our farmers, in order for them to travel back to their destination on time.

Youths in the area have razed down a police station in the community…

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