Agbekoya asks FG to call Fulani herdsmen to order
(Nigeria) Agbekoya Farmers Revolutionary Group, AFRG, in the
country has called on the Federal Government to caution and call the Fulani
herdsman to order over the incessant killing of the innocent farmers across the
country which are on the increase and unsettling.
Baale of Agbekoya Farmers Revolutionary Group, Pa Olalere Ayalu made the call in Lagos against
the backdrop of attacking farmers by Fulani herdsman in the country especially
in Lagun, Iyana Offa, Offa, Alalagba, Lapala and their surrounding Communities
in Lagelu Local Council Area of Ibadan, Oyo State.
Baale Ayalu alleged that a group of Fulani armed men
attacked these Communities at night, injured a guard and carted away valuables
worth millions of Naira, adding that those Fulani herdsmen had no respect for
human life as they invade their Communities and kill their farmers
unchallenged.
“In search for grazing pastures according to them, they have
left their footprint in practically every host Community in the Country that
has had the misfortune of having them as visitor. They have rendered some
villages in Oke-Ogun, agatu in Benue State “a gaping wound,” Baale Ayalu said.
He warned the Federal
Government not to let the event of 1968 repeat itself when the Government of
the Old Western Region under Governor Adeyinka Adebayo increased the tax levy
and forced their wives to pay taxes, which culminated into fighting between the
government and Agbekoyas.
He said the Yoruba Elders who were predominant farmers
kicked against the new tax levy then, saying that there was no basis for it
because cocoa plantations, their major business was not yielding expected
income.
Baale Ayalu pleaded with the Federal Government led by
President Muhammadu Buhari to expedite action on the killing of innocent
farmers by the Fulani herdsman, saying that they need to live together in peace
and harmony.
In a related development, the National Secretary, Agbekoya
Farmers Revolutionary Group, Mr. Sola Ariyibi, urged the President Buhari to
find a lasting solution the unlawful killing of farmers by Fulani herdsman,
adding that the quick intervention of presidency would minimise their menace
across the country.
He said that the indiscriminate killing of innocent farmers
has been getting out of hands as the farmers had no interest in farming again
for the fear of being killed by the Fulani herdsmen who carry sophisticated
weapons in their farms lands.
Mr. Ariyibi said it’s not that their farmers and the Agbekoyas
could not challenge their menace in Yoruba Land, but for the peace to reign,
that was the reasons it was imperative for President Buhari to deploy soldiers
in those grey areas to curb the menace of the Fulani herdsmen across the country.
“The President needs to be courageous, we know him as a man
of his word and integrity, he will not be swayed away by myopic, parochial,
religious and inglorious tendencies, and we want him to protect his integrity.
The Fulani herdsmen have done a lot of havoc in Nigeria” Ariyibi said.
While commemorating with the family members of those being
recently attacks in the country, Ariyibi said, that the Agbekoya would no
longer condone unlawful killing of their farmers particularly in the South-West
Region, warning that if the Fulani herdsmen go beyond their boundary, they
would teach them a lesson of their life.
He said that as it was in the days of their fore fathers, so
it is today and it would continue to be, admonishing Fulani herdsmen to stop
killing farmers in order to avoid reprisal attack from Agbekoya Farmers
Revolutionary Group in the Country.
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