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Ondo state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has made some clarifications on the Owo Catholic Church attack purportedly perpetrated by Ebira people.
Akeredolu had informed newsmen during a question and answer session in the state that the attackers were Ebira people of Kogi state
Meanwhile, granting interview questions on a political program, politics today on Channels Television Wednesday night, he insisted that some Ebiras were involved in the attack but pointed out that the attackers might not all be Ebiras.
He, however, said that his reference to Ebira was about recent incidents in the State not the Owo attack, and at the same time refused to rule out the involvement of the Ebiras in the June 5 attack.
“I don’t want to be emphatic on that point because what I said is being mixed up now,” he said.
“I addressed issues on what I’ll call the attackers who came to Owo…the terrorists who came to Owo on June 5 and at the same time, I went ahead to address about kidnap incidents that we’ve had of recent and I said that probably the Ebira people were involved in this.
“And I said we’re gonna call a meeting between the Ebira community in Ondo State because we’ve lived together for too long for these incidents to begin to happen. That was a separate thing.
“But, it is clear that from what we have, the terror gang in Okene were involved in the incident of June 5.
“What do we make of that? Are they all Ebiras? That’s for us to find out. Their names will not bring us to a [reasonable] conclusion because as you can see, a number of them have two names…and the Department of State Services is still working on this.
“For me, I know that there’s a terror gang in Okene and everybody knows that. They strike across the country…they strike in Kogi, Ekiti, and Ondo States,” he added.
Recall that the Defence Headquarters said they have arrested the attackers of the St Francis Catholic church in Owo Ondo state .
Giving an update on the Owo Church attack, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor said they were unable to parade the suspects yesterday because investigations were still ongoing.
Narrating how the terrorists were fished out, he said, “I want to tell you that we have arrested the attackers of Owo Church. We were to parade them today for you to be but investigations are still ongoing.