Some residents of Ikare-Akoko in Akoko Northeast Local Government Area of Ondo State defied Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s 24-hour curfew on Thursday and razed a bank building.The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mr Akeredolu imposed the 24-hour curfew on Tuesday as a result of mayhem in the town which began on Saturday and claimed lives.
Witnesses said people had been moving around in spite of the curfew and were surprised that the arsonists set the bank building ablaze. One of the witnesses told NAN that the arsonists earlier broke windows and door of the bank building before setting it on fire.The Divisional Police Officer in Ikare refused to comment, but directed NAN to speak with the Police Public Relations Officer in Akure, Funmilayo Odunlami.Ikare-Akoko has been embroiled in supremacy claims between the two traditional rulers in the town – the Olukare and the Owa-Ale- over decades.
The claim and counter-claims have also degenerated into the fractionalisation of the town with one part banning residents of the other part from venturing into their part of the town.
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