We’ll Rather Die Than Accept Seriki Fulani Back In Our Communty

Seriki Fulani, Abdulkadri Saliu,

The Seriki Fulani, Abdulkadri Saliu has been warned to not return to Igangan within the Ibarapa North-West Local Council Development Area of Oyo State.

This comes after the residents vowed by no means to permit him return to the group, based on a report by Punch.

According to them, accepting the Seriki Fulani again within the city was tantamount to self-suicide, including that they might fairly die than to simply accept Saliu again within the city.

“The entire town would rather go into self-suicide than to accept Seriki back. We would rather lay down our lives than for us and our generations to come to be subjected to the evil reign of Seriki again,” the Convener, Igangan Development Advocates, Oladiran Oladokun, instructed The PUNCH on Friday.

Oladokun was reacting to a statement made by the Seriki Fulani that he would take into account shifting again to Igangan.

“If given opportunity to return to the community I would consider moving back to Igangan,” Saliu, whose relations have settled quickly in Ilorin, Kwara State, had stated on Thursday.

The PUNCH earlier reported {that a} well-liked Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, properly often called Sunday Igboho, had requested herdsmen accused of perpetrating sundry crimes in Ibarapaland to go away inside seven days.

At the expiration of the ultimatum, Igangan residents, emboldened by Igboho’s presence had ejected the Seriki Fulani and his herders out of the country city.

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Speaking with our correspondent on Friday, Oladokun stated the residents of the city have been exhaling breathe of contemporary air and reduction because the eviction of Saliu and his males.

He stated farmers now have renewed hope of returning to their farms to proceed agricultural actions with out worry of being raped, kidnapped and killed.

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The IDA chief stated the people of the group wouldn’t need any order that may truncate the momentary peace and tranquility that they’ve began having fun with.

“Our people won’t permit that reign, that enslavement to return again now that they’ve tasted freedom slightly.

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“We are now relieved. People can’t go to farm for so many months but people are now thinking of going back to their farms and they are now having hope of a better life and you want to take that hope from them? Our people won’t allow that,” the youth chief instructed The PUNCH.

Continuing, Oladokun stated, “In the media, people perceive what happened in Igangan as an exaggeration. But for about 20 years, Igangan lived under the oppressive blood carnage championed by the Seriki himself. How do I know? Why is it that on every occasion, no Fulani has been prosecuted?”

 

“If the Seriki is absolutely who he claims to be and he cares a lot in regards to the city, why did he not carry out at the very least one perpetrator and say, ‘Igangan people, this one that you claimed killed a farmer last week, this is him, we got him for you. We don’t need criminals amongst us, we don’t people to tarnish our picture.’ Why hasn’t the Seriki executed that through the years?

 

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“Seriki claimed he had no control over Igangan but it is a lie; he held control over the town and the killings, he held sway over Igangan, even the Asigangan of Igangan land and the chiefs were helpless and they bowed to him. That is why they (herders) committed a crime, they would go to him (Seriki) and he would ask them to relax even if they killed or raped a woman in the farm. He would tell them it was the Ja’mah (congregation) that did it,” he alleged.

The IDA chief additional urged the Presidency and the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, to launch a complete investigation into the allegations levelled towards the Seriki Fulani to uncover and confirm the reality of the matter and produce the culprits to guide.

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