The community hosting the ongoing project of M.K.O. Abiola Cargo International Airport, Ido-Osun in Osun State has accused the state government of plans to cede the land to Ede community.

The community, through the Ido-Osun Youth Forum, via its President, Prince Abass Adeyeye and Secretary, Akao Opeyemi, in a statement, warned against the plot, saying it would snowball into a communal clash.

The statement said: “We are raising this alarm to call the attention of the Osun State Government to the recent high handedness of some elements in the government in their act of abuse of office privileges to cause unnecessary crisis and breach of peace in Ido-Osun and Osun State at large by deliberately thwarting the efforts of the Governor Ademola Adeleke administration’s goodwill intention of revamping the state airport project.

“On the formation of the Airport Committee, an error of interest was made in the appointment by deliberately exempting any indigene of Ido-Osun to serve in such a committee, knowing well that the airport is in Ido-Osun and will never be jointly hosted. Even the committee failed to visit the Alayemore of Ido-Osun palace when they visited the project.

“These entities in government immediately changed many of the airport project documents to appear Ido-Osun, Ede North/Egbedore local governments. Also, some career officers in the Ministry of Land worked to create fake documentation to cede some portions of Ido-Osun land to Ede North, with the hope and belief that they could bury Ido-Osun as the project continued.”

Commissioner for Information and Public Orientation, Kolapo Alimi, denied the allegations.

He said: “There is no plan by Adeleke’s government to cede any land to a community.” (The Nation)