Oluwo of Iwo in Osun State, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi was on Friday accused of beating up another traditional ruler, the Agbowu of Ogbaagba, Oba Dhirulai Akinropo during a peace meeting held in the office of the Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police, Zone 11, Mr Bashir Makama.

The AIG had summoned Oluwo and other monarchs from towns around Iwo to a peace meeting over an accusation by the Oluwo that the monarchs were selling pieces of land belonging to him.

Oba Akinropo was said to have been physically assaulted in the course of the peace meeting by the Oluwo, while it took a shocked AIG to rescue the beaten oba from the grip of his attacker.

Oba Akinropo, who had a cut on his left cheek from the attack, was thereafter taken to the state General Hospital, Asubiaro, Osogbo, where he was treated at the trauma section of the hospital.

Narrating the incident to journalists, one of the obas at the meeting, the Olu of Ile Ogbo, Oba Abeeb Agbaje Adetoyese said “around October 2019, Oluwo wrote a petition to the then AIG, Zone 11, Mr Leye Oyebade accusing some of us of selling his land and we were called to a meeting.

“We were told to settle it and we met the state governor at the secretariat. That day, Oluwo disrupted the meeting with his thugs.

When the government realised that his trouble was too much, the government sent a letter to us to meet the AIG today. While the meeting was on, he (Oluwo) said myself, Agbowu of Ogbaagba and Onigege of Igege were selling his land.