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Punch Newspapers Sections 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. ....
• I’m a victim of kidnapping, says herdsmen warlord The Odomofin of Ayete, Igangan area in Ibarapa North Local Council of Oyo State, Chief Saubana Oyewole, has lamented that his subjects now buy food as they cannot farm due to the activities of men of the arrested Fulani herdsmen warlord, Iskilu Wakili. x Oyewole, under whose domain Wakili loomed largely, stated this in an interview with journalists yesterday. He alleged that Wakili had committed many atrocities against local farmers in Ayete, especially in the past five years. He said that the way Fulani herders had been destroying their farmland, showed that they were probably ready for war. ....
ADVERTISEMENT INVESTIGATION: Inside the Igangan abductions, killings that exposed Oyo’s herder crisis Destruction of farmlands by cattle - and herders - is barely avoidable in Nigeria s outdated open grazing system and criminals are taking advantage. 13 min read Before Igangan, 177 kilometres from Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, was propelled to national attention in the past weeks, Taiwo Adeagbo, a local farmer-leader, had collected several photographs, depicting bloodied and savagely hacked human bodies. His collection also includes the photograph of a rape victim, lying sick with a machete cut. The forceful removal of the Fulani population in the town by a group inspired by Sunday “Igboho” Adeyemo, a self-acclaimed Yoruba warlord, had catapulted Igangan into national prominence. ....