Aregbesola inaugurates 6-man commission of inquiry on Ipetumodu/Ashipa crisis

Governor of Osun State, Rauf Areg­besola on Tuesday set up a six-man judicial commission of inqui­ry headed by Justice Olajide Falola to look into the com­munal clash between Ipetumo­du and Ashipa communities in Ife North Local Government Area of the state.

Other members of the Judi­cial Commission are Adelowo Adewumi, Mufutau Oluwadare and Mr. Elijah Ojo. Mr. Charles Chioma will represent the Osun command of the Nigeria Police, while Mr.Taofeek Komolafe serves as the panel’s secretary.
The governor, in a speech entitled, “Never Again” while inaugurating the panel, charged it to inquire into all the circum­stances that occasioned the dis­turbance of public peace which occurred on January 13, 2015 and in subsequent days.
The communities of Ipetu­modu and Ashipa had engaged in an orgy of violence and were on the path of mutually assured destruction before the intervention of law-enforce­ment agencies, the state gov­ernment and other leaders.
Aregbesola also urged the commission to include as its terms of reference, the inves­tigation and determination of the identity of the perpetrators and sponsors of the communal clash and disturbance in the two communities.
The governor also asked the panel to recommend ap­propriate administrative, civil or criminal action to be taken against person(s) or group(s) found to be involved in the destruction of property and at­tacks on persons.
He noted that human be­ings would lose their claim to being civilised if at this age they still preferred raw and sadistic actions to dialogues in the settlements of disputes among themselves.