How Police Detained Oyo Farmers Whose Farms Were Destroyed By Wakili, Collected N50,000 For Bail – Youth Leader
It is the government that we are afraid of and not the Fulani. If we had our way, Fulani herders would have no place in our community anymore.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Mar 15, 2021
A youth leader in Ayete/Kajola community in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, Ganiyu Omirinde, has narrated the ordeals of their farmers in the hands of criminal Fulani herdsmen allegedly unleashed by a suspected Fulani kidnap kingpin, Isikilu Wakili.
In an interview with PUNCH, Omirinde stated that farmers whose farms were destroyed by 75-year-old Wakili’s hoodlums were arrested and detained by the police and they were forced to part with N50,000 as bail before securing their release.
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Olufemi Olaniyi
Published 13 March 2021
Residents of Ibarapa area of Oyo State have lost sleep despite the arrest of Iskilu Wakili, said to be a dreaded warlord terrorising the area. Dwellers in Ibarapaland have been suffering attacks at the hands of killer herders who destroyed their farmlands with cattle, raped, killed and kidnapped many for ransom. Farmers are said to be the worst hit as those in communities such as Ayete, Igangan, Idere, Igboora, Tapa, Lanlate and Eruwa have harrowing tales to tell.
The development led a Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho to issue a seven-day notice to quit to Fulani herders in the area. Upon the expiration of the order, he went to Igangan. After he left, a mob reportedly torched the settlement of the Seriki Fulani of Igangan, Salihu Abdulkadir, accused by villagers of aiding several herders’ atrocities in the area.
On December 16, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the immediate reopening of four land borders, namely: Seme in Lagos, Illela in Sokoto, Maigatari in Jigawa and Mfun in Cross River. But the order was not complied with immediately. While Seme was reopened five days after the president’s pronouncement, Illela was still shut at the time this report was filed. Traders and residents spoke with TheCable on how the 16-month closure caused untold hardship and deflated their businesses.
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On Saturday, it was glaring that activities along the border were yet to come alive as just a very few taxis parked on the road to pick passengers from the Badagry roundabout to Seme border. Most of the vehicles ferrying passengers to the border were driven by men in uniform who work at the borders, but making quick cash as transporters since commercial drivers deserted the route after the closure of the border. The official, who picked up this reporter to the border, works with the Nigeria