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Ibarapa youths support Sunday Igboho —Igangan indigenes

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The Igangan Development Advocates has said the people of the town and other communities in Ibarapaland in Oyo State have been under the alleged constant attacks and oppression of Fulani herdsmen in the area.
The convener of the IDA, Mr Oladiran Oladokun, who said this in a statement on Saturday, said the people had been crying for freedom for a long time with no one to help.
He said this was why youths throughout Ibarapaland trooped out on Friday to welcome Sunday Igboho to execute the eviction order he gave to the Seriki Fulani of Oyo State seven days earlier.
Igboho had addressed the youths on Friday, saying all criminal Fulani would not only be driven out of Igangan but from the entire Yorubaland.
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The IDA convener said the people needed somebody who would remove the burden of their oppressors from their necks and Igboho offered to do that.
He said, “For years, farm plundering was their full-time business, growing audaciously in bounds even as the Seriki Saliu ensured no Fulani was prosecuted for offences they were caught committing.‌
“With no disciplinary measures ever meted at the now reverential Fulani herdsmen, their audacity has grown from just grazing upon the sweats of Ibarapa farmers to maiming and lynching any farmer who dares to raise a voice.
“Igangan and Ibarapaland are a peaceful place where the Fulani culture of undue exploitation under the draconian reign of their kingpins became cancerous.
“No one was spared that was why everyone was there when Sunday Igboho responded to our cry.”

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The Senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District in Ondo state, Nicholas Tofowomo, has declared total support for governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s decision directing all the herdsmen to vacate Ondo State forest reserves.
Tofowomo who is a Peoples Democratic Party Senator said the decision was to separate genuine businessmen from criminals in the forest.
The Senator in a statement by his Special Assistant, Media & Publicity, Akinrinlola Olumide, however, advised the governor to take a step further by making it a law.
“I join my voice with all the positive and good people of Ondo State and also congratulate Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu for taking a very good decision against the criminal activities of some Fulani herdsmen that are holding us to ransom in Ondo State.”
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“While declaring my total support for the decision of the governor to evict criminals from our forest reserves with the registration of genuine herdsmen and farmers who are into businesses in Ondo State, I urge him to take a step further by making it a law.”
“He should package a law to the State House of Assembly to put an end to banditry, and kidnapping being orchestrated by the bad eggs among the Fulanis who are hiding under the guise of herdsmen.”
“With that, criminals would be separated from those doing genuine businesses in Ondo State. It is only a bandit that would support a bandit and it is only a kidnapper that would support a kidnapper.”
Tofowomo added that “I stand with Mr Governor on his decision. And I advise all the genuine herdsmen to vacate the forest reserves and obey the governor’s directive by going through the appropriate ministry for registration.”

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Violence erupted in Igangan in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State on Friday when a popular Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, and his supporters reportedly stormed the Fulani settlement in the town to eject the Seriki Fulani, Salihu Abdukadir, and some other herdsmen accused of fuelling security problems in the area.
Unconfirmed reports claimed that some persons were killed while properties worth several millions of naira were set ablaze during the clash which occurred in the evening.
Although Igboho could not be reached as calls to his telephone line indicated that he was out of reach, residents of Igangan however said that at least one youth from Igboora was killed by Fulani fighters while two others sustained injuries from gunshots.
The Seriki also told our correspondent that one Fulani woman was killed. He said he had fled the town before Igboho returned on Friday.
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The claims from both sides could not be independently verified as of press time.
Igboho had last week issued a seven-day quit notice to the Seriki and his associates.
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State had in a broadcast warned people fuelling ethic crisis in the state to desist from such act.
Despite this, Igboho and his supporters stormed Igangan on Friday afternoon.
Addressing the youths, Igboho said, “They started deploying soldiers here since yesterday (Thursday). When our people were being kidnapped and killed, there was not soldier to be deployed to secure them.
Reacting, the Oyo State PPRO, Mr. Olugbenga Fadeyi, said, “Tactical police teams with Operation Burst are  on ground to give maximum security protection   while efforts are on to ascertain the situation there.”

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A lone driver was found dead behind the wheels in his car along CMD Road, Magodo, in Lagos on Friday.
Director General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, spoke to newsmen at the scene,
He said that the agency’s paramedic team responded to a distress call and upon arrival, met the man slumped at the wheel.
The DG said that when the patient’s vital signs were checked, pulse was absent, pupils were fixed and dilated, the patient was dead already.
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Oke-Osanyintolu said fortunately, the relatives of the victim, who were already present at the scene agreed to transport the body to the nearest morgue.

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The Chairman, Task Force on COVID-19 guidelines in Kaduna State, Major Garba Yahya Rimi (rtd), has assured that they will get rid of all Almajiris and beggars from the streets in the 23 Local Government Areas of the State.
The chairman explained that the number of those apprehended so far would keep on rising because the operation will still be ongoing in the next three months across the 23 Local Government Areas of the State.
He said, “So, it’s not only the arrest of 140 Sheikh Tahir Bauchi islamiah schools students in Kaduna town, this was parts of the guidelines given to us after our Inauguration in the state recently.”
He noted that all the 19th northern States and Abuja have agreed that any beggar found on the street should be arrested and taken to their state of origin and repatriated to his own local government and ward as the case maybe.
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The chairman added, “Any destitute like beggars, there’s a law banning them from going to the street and if intercepted will be treated based on the same directive of the governors.”
According to him, sometime ago, the 19th Northern State Governors and Abuja Minister’s representative had a meeting at the state house in Kaduna and resolved that Almajiris be taken back to their various states of origin after deliberation, to go to formal or Almajiri schools in their area.
He added that they can go back to their parents houses when closed from the school in accordance with the law.
He noted that there is a Kaduna law of 2016 banning street begging or hawking in the state.
In Kaduna State, Major Garba Yahya Rimi (rtd), explained, “So, most of what we’re doing is based on those laws. But people said we are targeting sheikh Bauchi, that is not the truth.
“Because the first time we arrested about 22 Almajiris traveling from some states to another part of the country; at the same time, we moved to the other side and arrested about 140 which we conveyed to Hajj camp which is legally allowed by the state government.
“They are lslamiah students, and are now more than 160 to162 at Hajj camp, all together, because the number is increasing and there are two of them who could not tell us exactly where they came from.”
He also said the number of students of Shiekh Tahir Bauchi lslamiah school students and street beggars arrested has increased from 140 to 162.

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