Ogun Monarch Attacked By Hoodlums

Hoodlums Thursday stormed Ehin-Ogbe community, a border town in Ogijo, Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State, beating up the monarch and some residents. Oba Akeem Elupepe, while narrating his ordeal, accused a rival to the throne, whom he identified as Moshood Okeowo, of sponsoring the hoodlums, using policemen in Lagos State as shield. He added that before the hoodlums attacked the village with the assistance of policemen led by a sergeant from a police station in Ijede, Lagos State, he had reportedly summoned him and other four people in the village over a petition written by Moshood Okeowo, Taiwo Okeowo and Bashiru Okeowo for alleged r*pe and detained them. It was gathered, however, that the monarch and four others sustained some injuries following their attack by the hoodlums who chased them out of the community and subsequently took over the area, claiming that the land belong to their forefathers.