By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
The Oodua Progressive Care Initiative, OPCI, has dismissed the information doing the rounds that it was involved in the Ikire crisis in Irewole local government area of Osun State, where two hoodlums lost their lives and many others sustained different degrees of injuries.
According to a press statement issued by the Osun State Coordinator of the OPCI, Dr Hammed Daramola Idowu, and made available to The Conclave in Osogbo the Osun State capital, on Friday, “We want to state it here point blank and set the record straight by saying it categorically that those who were referred to as members of OPCI were not, as far as OPCI Osun state is concerned.
“Though, in some years back it was on record and indisputable fact that some members of outlawed group (OPC) and members of OPCI in Irewole local government of Osun state engaged one another in the supremacy war which one of the crisis lovers (one Akerele and his group believed to be Gani Adams OPC) was arrested and charged to court by the Osun state police command.”
The statement said: “In year 2020, one Semiu Agbeyangi who was then the state Coordinator of OPCI in Osun and his group in Apomu/Ikire was suspended from the organisation for their involvement in the series of crisis that rocked Ikire/Apomu especially the Ikire/Apomu vs Nigeria army.
“When the National body of OPCI found Agbeyangi and his group guilty of the offences and allegations leveled against them, they have been since EXPELLED from the Oodua progressive care initiative (OPCI ).”
The statement thereby called on the state security authority to investigate what had led to the crisis that terminated the lives of those young men and bring the culprits to book.
“The OPCI in Osun state will not relent in its effort to ensure that peace is reign in the state and continue to give necessary support to the law enforcement agencies in their bids to eradicate crime and criminals in the state” the statement concluded.
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