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NOBEL Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has faulted police claim that his property wasn’t invaded by cows and herdsmen who, on Tuesday, entered the Kemta Housing Estate, Abeokuta, Ogun State, where his house is located.
There were reports on Wednesday that some herders and their cows invaded the elder statesman’s property and attacked him.
But Soyinka in a statement on Thursday from his Autonomous Residence of Ijegba, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State, titled: ‘Mad cows and even madder narratives’, said he was never attacked but described the police version of the incident as untrue.
It noted that only a herdsman entered the area in search of a stray cow.
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Three senior lawyers and groups, including Afenifere and the Yoruba Council of Elders, on Wednesday, criticised the Presidency over its stand on the Ondo State Government’s ultimatum to herdsmen in the state’s forest reserves.
But the Northern Elders’ Forum directed the Fulani herdsmen to disregard the notice to quit forest reserves in the state.
Also on Wednesday, the Ondo State Government said it did not tell herdsmen to leave the state or its forests, but forest reserves, which had become hideouts of kidnappers.
In a telephone interview with
The PUNCH, the Secretary General of the YCE, Dr Kunle Olajide, described as unconstitutional, the reaction of the Presidency.