The residents of Ajowa-Akoko in Akoko North West Local Government Area of Ondo State have called on the Federal and the State governments to come to their rescue over the rising cases of kidnapping in the community.

Ajowa-Akoko, a border town in Ondo State, has recently experienced some security issues.

The monarch of the community was recently kidnapped by gunmen who abducted him from his palace within the community.

The abductors of the Oloso of Oso-Ajowa Akoko, Oba Clement Olukotun, believed to be bandits, had demanded N100million ransom for the release of the monarch

Few days after the monarch was released by his abductors, four students of Kogi State Polytechnic were also abducted while on their way to the community for the Yuletide celebration.

However, the community’s spokesman, Mr. Jacob Adegoke, at a town hall meeting to discuss the matter, bemoaned the horrible experience that residents had endured over the previous two years in the hands of criminals who they claimed had killed, maimed, raped, and kidnapped their people.

Adegoke called on all tiers of government to increase security in the community which he said is the last community in the State that borders the northern part of the country.

Revd Ezekiel Dahunsi, the Chairman of the Ajowa community and a retired Anglican bishop, lauded Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu for strengthening security with the Amotekun Corps, but called for further help in Ajowa-Akoko to safeguard inhabitants from intimidation of any kind.

Meanwhile, the Oloso of Oso-Ajowa, Oba Jimoh Omoola said Military personnel should be deployed to support the security system in the area, while he called for the establishment of a divisional police headquarters at Ajowa.