Fire guts multimillion naira mansion belonging to Yoruba activist Sunday Igboho
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A mansion belonging to Sunday Igboho, a Yoruba activist in Southwest Nigeria, has been reportedly razed by yet to be identified men.
Igboho came into national stream of consciousness when be issued an ultimatum to Fulani criminals in Ibarapa in Oyo State.
Igboho, who is the Akoni Oodua of Yoruba Terre, had asked herdsmen in Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State to leave within seven days.
According to a report by online news medium, Platforms Africa, the fire gutted some parts of the house of the popular Yoruba rights activist.
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Whenever and wherever Sunday Igboho is mentioned, what comes to the minds of most people is a picture of brigandage and violence, but you have often maintained that you are a man of peace. Who is Sunday Igboho?
People don’t know a lot of things about me. The thing I detest the most is oppression: whenever I see that anyone is being oppressed or cheated for being on his right, I defend such people. I say it all the time that anyone who can point out that Sunday Igboho killed someone should come out with the facts. Even at the height of the heated politics between the late Chief LamidiAdedibu and former Governor Rashidi Ladoja in Oyo State, I didn’t kill anyone. The only thing I did was to protect Ladoja and shield him from harm whenever he was to be attacked. As hot as the venue of the Akure, Ondo State primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in 2006, I ensured the safety of the former governor. People made moves to buy me over in order to harm Ladoja but I refus
Ojudu said, ” Sunday Adeyemo alias Sunday Igboho, lately crowned a hero in Yorubaland, by the reign of terror by herders and bandits has that occasional conscience you can appeal to.
“Let those who can rein in the herders do so and make the forests and highways safe again. Let farmers be able to carry out their occupation without fear of kidnap, murder, and rape.
“Let us find a modern and permanent solution to this issue of itinerant herding that pitches a group of Nigerians against the other.
“Let us not ethnicize criminality. A criminal is a criminal and a crime is a crime whether perpetrated by Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, Junkun, Bachama or Ibariba.