Following the recent clashes among rival cult groups who engaged themselves in a supremacy battle since Wednesday last week, with no fewer than 20 killed, the Ogun State government on Monday imposed a curfew on Sagamu, the headquarters of Sagamu Local Government Area of the state.
The Informant247 gathered that the restriction of human and vehicular movement is from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.
In a statement released by Lekan Adeniran, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, urged residents of Sagamu to abide by the restriction order, pending the time the security of the area will improve, while assuring the town of their safety and property
It added that the Police and other security agencies are on top of the situation to restore normalcy.
The statement read: “This is to notify residents of Sagamu and its environs of total restriction of human and vehicular movement as a way of taking firm control of the security architecture of the area and protect the lives of the people and their property.
“We, therefore, implore the residents of the area to abide strictly to this restriction order and cooperate with security agencies to restore normalcy and bring perpetrators of these dastardly acts to book immediately.”
