The National leader of Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC), Aare Gani Adams, has warned that killings by herdsmen will not be tolerated in the South-western part of Nigeria.
Speaking in Ibadan, Oyo State, Adams warned the herdsmen not to take advantage of the accommodating nature of the Yoruba people to carry out atrocities in the South west region.
“Yoruba people are by nature very accommodating; we are brave and courageous. However, we will not allow the indiscriminate killings of our people; we will resist any attempt by the herdsmen to spill innocent blood in the southwest,” Adams, Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland warned.
Although cases of killings related to herders/farmers conflicts have not occurred on a large scale in the Southwest, there have been incidents of attacks in Ogun, Ondo, Ekiti and Oyo state.
Most of the attacks attributed to herdsmen against farmers in the South west occurred in Ondo State.
The farmland of former presidential aspirant and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, has been burnt twice by men suspected to be herders.
Also, 65-year old Patience Salami was hacked to death in her farm recently while 200 hectares of farmland was destroyed in Arodoye community in Akure, among other similar attacks.
- Sahara Reporters