Wakili: Three OPC Members Charged With Murder, Arson Over Arrest Of Suspected Fulani Warlord
The three OPC members were arrested by the police after they had apprehended Iskilu Wakili, a suspected Fulani warlord in the Ibarapa area of the state said to be complicit in the killings, kidnappings and rape incidents in the area.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Mar 17, 2021
An Iyagangu Chief Magistrate Court in Ibadan, Oyo State has ordered that three members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) who arrested Isikilu Wakili in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of the state should be remanded in Abolongo Correctional centre for alleged murder and arson.
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital has ordered that Isikilu Wakili be remanded in a correctional facility. DAILY
The Oyo State Police command on Monday urged residents of the state to come to the command and make formal complaints against Isikilu Wakili. DAILY POST
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.
A statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Olugbenga Fadeyi, denied that the command detained complainants who reported any case against the Fulani herdsmen at the police station in Ibarapa axis.