The divisional office of the Nigeria Police in Itori,
Ewekoro Local government, Tuesday was turned into a boxing ring by two
traditional rulers who engaged themselves in a boxing bash over traditional
matters in the area.
The two traditional rulers, Olu of Itori, Oba Akorede
Akamo and Baale Lapeleke, Chief Akinremi, had come to the Police station
to lodge complaint against one another over an overnight disruption
of a cultural ceremony being performed by indigenes of a neighbourhood
village in the area, when the fight ensued.
The Owu people in Lapeleke Camp township, an adjacent
suburb town of Itori in the local government area were in the height
of celebrating the annual Owu cultural and heritage renaissance typified
by ODUN OMO OLOWU which had earlier flagged off in Owu Palace, Abeokuta,
Monday, when Oba Akamo was alleged to have led a group of people believed
to be thugs, armed with guns and cutlasses and shot sporadically to
scamper the occasion.
Several people were injured in the melee and properties
yet to be quantified were similarly destroyed. While the injured
had been taken to a hospital in Abeokuta for treatment, a number of
arrests have been made and they are being questioned at the Itori police
station. The two personalities have made statements to the Police.
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