Nigeria, Nov. 5 -- The Osun State Government has cautioned the Oluwo of Iwo, Abdulrasheed Akanbi, over what it described as inflammatory public statements capable of triggering religious and inter-town conflicts.

In a letter dated November but with no particular day stated and addressed to the monarch, the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs warned that his alleged conduct could undermine communal peace and peaceful coexistence among people of different faiths.

The letter, signed by the ministry's Permanent Secretary, Wale Alli-yu, said the government had observed with "worries and anxieties" recent inflammatory statements and pronouncements attributed to the monarch.

"The persistence of such crisis-inciting activities...