Osun monarch warns politicians over rising election killings

The Owa Obokun of Ijesaland, Oba Adesuyi Haastrup, has warned politicians operating wrong his domain to desist from acts of violence, peculiarly killings linked to governmental activities.

Oba Haastrup issued the informing connected Tuesday during the induction ceremonial of the maiden Obokungbusi Hall of Fame, an inaugural designed to honour distinguished Ijesa indigenes for their planetary contributions.

While addressing attendees astatine the event, the accepted ruler expressed heavy interest implicit what helium described arsenic an alarming emergence successful politically motivated killings successful Ijesaland.

He disclosed that astatine slightest 3 Ijesa men had been killed wrong 1 period successful incidents allegedly connected to campaigns up of the forthcoming August election.

He described the concern arsenic unacceptable and indicative of a unsafe drift towards lawlessness successful the region.

“For politicians keeping their children overseas and slaughtering my radical similar chickens is unacceptable.

“Within a month, you person killed 3 of my sons; however galore volition you termination by August?” The monarch queried.

He questioned the rationale down the violence, asking, “Why volition you crook Nigeria backmost to the barbaric property of the 1960s?”

The monarch warned that immoderate person recovered culpable successful the ki...