Fulani Herdsmen Say God Owns Our Ancestral Land, Intimidate Us With AK-47 Rifles— Oyo Community Chief


Fulani Herdsmen Say God Owns Our Ancestral Land, Intimidate Us With AK-47 Rifles— Oyo Community Chief

The community leader said the manner in which the Fulani people were destroying farmland in the area indicated that a war was looming.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKJAN 28, 2021

The Odomofin of Ayete, a community in Ibarapa North Local Government area of Oyo State, Saubana Oyewole, has alleged the continuous intimidation of his people by Fulani herdsmen wielding AK-47 rifles.

The community leader said the manner in which the Fulani people were destroying farmland in the area indicated that a war was looming.

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He claimed that he had been the one appealing to his people to be calm and respect the rule of law for the peaceful coexistence of the two tribes.

Odomofin, in an exclusive interview with SaharaReporters on Wednesday, alleged that one Wakili Fulani in Kajola Ayete, had on several occasions frustrated peace pacts signed by the Fulani and the host community.

His words; "The Fulani set our cashew farm ablaze and our young people went to confront them about this, instead of answering the questions, the Fulani guys shot at our men but the bullets didn't penetrate because those who went that day were fortified. The youths had to leave immediately because they had not gone for a fight.

"The cashew farm has been there for the past 12 years. We make at least N1 million as proceeds from the farm every year. Now, they have burnt down everything. 

"These people use AK-47 rifles to intimidate our people. They have been on our land for the past 18 years. Nobody gave them the portion of land they are occupying. When I saw Wakili on my land 18 years ago, I challenged him and he asked me if I knew that land belongs to God. I told him I knew God owns the land but he would be paying me annual rent but as we speak, he never paid a dime. I went to court but the matter died like that.

"The judge invited us to his office and advised that we settle the issue amicably. When we got home, I invited him and his lawyer and we agreed to give him another land but he didn't move to the new site despite the fact that he didn't pay for the one he is occupying.

"Our people do not have money to feed themselves neither can they farm again. The Fulani people's cows have eaten up all our crops while they spared their own (Fulani people’s) farms. We now have to buy food from them.

"Aside from this, they also burgle our shops. They burgled my daughter’s shop at Konko market. We knew they were the ones because we saw their motorbike at the shop when we got to the scene. They also burgled another shop last night. They kidnap, rape our ladies and even kill our people. They do what they like.

"We know they are beating drums of war. We, on the other hand, are only trying to manage the situation. Even if they have more than AK-47 rifles, they cannot conquer us but we only respect the government. We are only being patient because of the rule of law."

Oyewole called on the government to intervene now before the situation gets out of hand as community people are willing to retaliate.

He also alleged that the police in the area are not fair to the people whenever they are victimised by Fulani herders.

"The police have not been fair to us. Whenever we take the issue of maltreatment by Fulani herdsmen to the station, the police will ask us to settle it among ourselves. If they destroy like one acre of land, they may resolve to pay us N5,000.

"We made our plight known to the Commissioner of Police last Saturday when she visited Igangan. She simply asked us to compile our evidence and bring them to Ibadan."



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I thought Sunday Igboho chased out these miscreants already?

Wahala dey, it seems the South west are dealing with more than a handful right now when it comes to this Fulani menace.

Yoruba people, why are playing down your problem?
Why can't you leverage the power of ESN and hold your ground?

You brought this evil to yourself through betrayal of the south. Treachery does not pay.

Balkan:
Yoruba people, why are playing down your problem?
Why can't you leverage the power of ESN and hold your ground?

You brought this evil to yourself through betrayal of the south. Treachery does not pay.

The South needs to wake up

Yoruba make una get sense o,

Falana is busying playing political correctness and quoting law, is it not the same judiciary these infidels have been boasting they own.

Where was/is Falana when sharia justice system made it to main stream under Nigeria secular constitution with its sharia judge now head of the judiciary.

Make una stop sabotaging Igboho and others who care to speak.

There has to be a people before law can govern them

Lies from ipob

This whole Fulani jihad is getting funnier by the day. When the Fulanis were attacking freely and unchallenged, their colleagues in power termed them criminals, when the people started retaliating they became Fulanis indeed.
Same pattern around west Africa.

Odu'a is not known for cowardice. Your hospitality has been taken for granted by Barbarians who were attracted to your economic prosperity and the lush green of your rain forest. Your ancients saw these and gave warnings, but they were ignored. The most unbelievable part is that your youths supported these hordes from hell when they attacked others tribes. This embolden them to take their relationship with Odu'a to the next level.

They started bringing in tens of trucks laden with scrawny looking terrorists from Chad, Mali and Niger. The youths did not notice strange people in their midst because they were busy on Nairaland and SM fighting indigenous people putting up resistance to the Foolanis imperialism. To show that they love the nation and does not want it to divide, they were willing to offer their sisters to the Foolanis rapist.

They even asked how people knew that these atrocities were committed by the men to whom they offered their sisters for pleasure. They asked us to show the cows to prove that they were herdsmen. Unfortunately, we could not show them the cows since the people did not come with any cow, they only wanted to start kidnapping and take over the business of "owo mi da?". So they blended among their fellow Bororo in the Sabo communities provided to them by the Baale in the spirit of love.

Then, Chief Igboho and the youths of Ibarapa rose up to defend the honour of Odu'a, but the young ones who were too busy with the pleasure of watching old women been molested said Igboho should not disturb their enjoyment. But thousands of youths who spoke i'jinle Yoruba, ignored the bastards on Nairaland and went with Igboho to Ibarapa. They made a loud statement, that Odu'a is not a conquered territory.

Ewo! Alapini will not be alive and watch his children be enslaved on their own land.

Qelvin:
Wahala dey, it seems the South west are dealing with more than a handful right now when it comes to this Fulani menace.

Oyo Governor is such an over hyped clueless human being.
He is failing his people in terms of security of the State
He will turn deaf ears to their plights but when they fight back he will be threatening them.

Who do Southerners this kind thing?