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Gbenga Adeniji, Friday Olokor and Olufemi Olaniyi
The Coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress in Oyo State, Mr Rotimi Olumo, has said the police have arrested four members of the group, who were part of the team that arrested a Fulani warlord, Iskilu Wakili.
A joint team, including the Oodua Peoples Congress, a vigilante group and others arrested the Fulani on Sunday.
He was arrested on Sunday along with three of his gang members after an exchange of gunfire.
Wakili and his gang had for a long time been accused of being behind the kidnappings and killings in Ibarapa and Oke Ogun areas of the state.
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Sasa: Afenifere, Adebanjo, Adams lambast Lawan for attacking South-West govs
Gbenga Adeniji
Elder statesman, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere and the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, have berated Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, over his comments indicting South-West governors for the recent mayhem in Sasa community, Ibadan, in the Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State.
Lawan, in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service on Saturday, claimed that ‘unguarded statements’ by some governors in the South-West incited people in the area to take up arms against fellow citizens.
He also blamed what he called the failure of governments in the region for the crisis which led to property destruction in the area.
We’ll protect Yorubaland against invasion, OPC, hunters, vigilantes assure South-West indigenes
Some Yoruba self-determination groups have pledged to defend the region against invasion.
Yorubaland has been under attack by rampaging killer herdsmen accused of worsening insecurity in the region by raping, abducting and killing indigenes.
The groups urged South-West monarchs not to hesitate to invite any of them if the security of any indigene was threatened by invaders anywhere in the region. They also threw their weight behind the Western Nigerian Security Network, Amotekun.
The groups comprising the Odua Peoples Congress, Agbekoya, Hunters Group, Isokan Ile Yoruba, Vigilante Group of Nigeria, Ibarapa Group and the Community Society Awareness Initiative, stated this in a communiqué issued after a security meeting held on Friday in Lagos.