Govt ends 50-year-old feud between two communities

Speaking at a meeting with stakeholders of the two communities last week, the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Ali Olanusi, said the two communities have been urged to allow peace to reign.    The deputy governor opined that sharing of the disputed area was based on various investigations conducted by the commission He said Ipesi community […]

Speaking at a meeting with stakeholders of the two communities last week, the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Ali Olanusi, said the two communities have been urged to allow peace to reign.   

The deputy governor opined that sharing of the disputed area was based on various investigations conducted by the commission

He said Ipesi community initially claimed that the natural boundary between the two communities was river Awowole which it later agreed to by the colonial masters that river Okikanmi was their natural boundary.

Olanusi explained further that the entire population census conducted in Nigeria to date had counted the figure of the people in the disputed areas to Ipesi-Akoko.

According to the deputy governor, most Ebira settlers on the land have always and are  still paying rates and taxes to Akoko South-east Local Government, stressing that from time immemorial, Idogun community had never contested the said land with Ipesi community based on written and empirical records.

After all findings, Olanusi explained that there was no record or document to show or give clue to a boundary.

“With the evidence on ground in conjunction with various investigations and to let peace reign, the boundary commission under my control, has concluded that 60 percent of the disputed area should go to Ipesi, while 40 per cent be given to Idogun community,” the deputy governor ruled.