The ongoing story about the Fulani herdsmen is becoming more brazen in their criminal activities in the South West. They are now being aided by soldiers, agents of coercion of the Federal Government!
Apart from the Northern part of Oyo where Sunday Igboho took it upon himself to fight the invaders, Ogun villages too are undergoing the same brutalities. The hardest hit is Ketu-speaking villages in Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun.
Obaland magazine learned according to Nation newspaper some of the villages are: Ubeku village, Iselu, Ibeku, Agbon-Ojodu, Asa, include Ateru, Moro, Ologun, Agbon, Igbota, Ogunba-Aiyetoro, Oke-Odo, Ibore, Gbokoto, Iselu, Ijale, Ohunbe, Igbeme, Owode-Ketu, Igan-Alade, Lashilo, Oja Odan, Ateru, Moro, Ologun, Iyana Meta, Igbooro, Egbeda and Kuse, and others.
About 29 villages in the area, as contained in the story, had been attacked in recent times by terror herdsmen who were said to have “camped at Eggua, a neighboring town, from where they moved with their hordes of cattle, ravaging farmlands within the Ketu-Yewa communities, which share borders with the Republic of Benin.”
The story has it further that Seye Mulero of Ubeku village was seriously beaten by soldiers from the 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta. “Mulero, one of the young men in the rustic village, had drawn the ire of some soldiers by speaking truth to them. The soldiers, numbering 10, had escorted some herdsmen on a mission to intimidate the villagers after they resisted an attempt by the herders to graze their cattle in the community after alleged repeated attacks and killing of farmers who dared protest the destruction of their farms.
The herdsmen, who had departed the village after their continued presence was rejected by the villagers, had suddenly resurfaced at about 2 pm on December 19, 2020, with a handful of soldiers.”
In order for the situation not to get out of order, analysts wanted Genenera Tukur Buratai, the Chief of Army Staff, to deal brutally with the soldiers in question from Abeokuta. Atrocities of the Fulani in the South West was so serious that the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, wrote a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari in July 2019 letter, which was heavily circulated this week on social media in the wake of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s quit notice to the Fulani from the reserved forests of Ondo State and Sunday Igboho’s challenge.
