The Oyo State Government has deployed more than seven buses to Jos, the Plateau State Capital to bring back home indigenes of the State.

The Directive was given by the State Governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao Akala following the civil disturbances in the city which have claimed many lives in the last few days.

According to a statement issued this evening by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Communications, Prince Dotun Oyelade the Oyo State Government sympathized with the people for the trauma being experienced as a result fratricidal conflict.

Governor Alao Akala who is in Israel to perform the on-going holy-pilgrimage urged indigenes of the state in the Northern State of Plateau to remain calm, assuring that Government would not abandon them at this period or at any other time for that matter.
 
He pledged that apart from the provision of the vehicles government was also making other necessary arrangement for the indigenes of the state who decide to return.

Otunba Alao Akala called for an urgent resolution of the crisis.

The Governor said many Yoruba people especially from Oyo State have been in Jos for Scores of years and pray that God would bring an immediate end to the trouble there.

The statement said the Governor also said he has asked the State Police Commissioner Mr. Baba Adisa Bolanta to get in touch with his counterpart in Plateau State to give easy passage to the vehicles sent to bring back indigenes of Oyo State .

This is as a result of 24 hours curfew in imposed in Jos and its environs.

It will be recalled that when similar crisis occurred last year the Governor not only sent relieve materials and cash to indigenes of Oyo State , Otunba Alao Akala also undertook a two day journey to ascertain the people’s welfare.
 

Prince Dotun Oyelade
Special Adviser on to the Governor on Public Communications.