In a bid to silence the victims of the brutality, about six soldiers led by one Captain John Onyebuchi, visited some of the villages in the Yewa North Local Government Area of the state again at about 2 pm on Friday, January 29, 2021.

Barely two weeks after The Nation published an exclusive report about soldiers from 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta escorting some herdsmen to Ketu-Yewa speaking villages in Yewa North Area of Ogun State, where they flogged villagers for rejecting the herders, soldiers again invaded the villages and made frantic attempt to force the victims to recant torture allegation against them, as Force Headquarters, Abuja, invite villagers for questioning following alleged petition by herdsmen, reports KUNLE AKINRINADE.

-Tell residents to deny media reports that they were flogged

-Threaten to arrest villagers whose names appear in The Nation’s story

-Vow to shun future distress calls from communities.

-Force headquarters invite residents for questioning in Abuja.

Lawmaker, group, monarch seek probe of Army’s complicity.

For the second time, soldiers from 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta, Ogun State, have visited some villages in Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State, where they had earlier brutalised residents at the instance of some herdsmen.

In a report exclusively published by The Nation penultimate Saturday, the soldiers had reportedly escorted some herdsmen to some of the villages on December 19, 2020 and flogged many of the residents for refusing to allow the herdsmen to graze their cattle on their farmlands.

About 29 villages in the area had been attacked in recent times by terror herdsmen who were said to have camped at Eggua, a neighbouring town, from where they led their cattle to destroy farmlands within the Ketu-Yewa communities, which share borders with the Republic of Benin.

The affected villages include Ateru, Moro, Ologun, Agbon, Igbota, Ogunba-Aiyetoro, Oke-Odo, Ibore, Gbokoto, Iselu, Ijale, Ohunbe, Igbeme, Ijoun, Owode-Ketu, Igan-Alade, Lashilo, Oja Odan, Moro, Ologun, Iyana Meta, Igbooro, Egbeda and Kuse.

The story has not been refuted by the Nigerian Army or the federal authorities many days after it was published.
Worried by the development, some traditional rulers in the area had written a petition against the soldiers, the state government, and the police in the state.

In a bid to silence the victims of the brutality, about six soldiers led by one Captain John Onyebuchi, visited some of the villages in the Yewa North Local Government Area of the state again at about 2 pm on Friday, January 29, 2021.

At Ubeku, in the presence of the Baale (village head) Chief Olaleye Adigun, a youth leader Peter Koposhu and other villagers, the soldiers asked one of their victims, Seye Mulero to recant his statement published in the petition and reported by The Nation. According to a four-minute audio recording of the event that transpired during the visit and obtained by our correspondent, Captain Onyebuchi revealed that the Army headquarters was worried by the petition it received and news report over the allegation that men of 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta escorted herdsmen to the affected communities where they brutalised some villagers for refusing herdsmen to graze their cattle on their farmlands.

•One of the soldiers arresting a resident of Ubeku
In the said audio recording, Onyebuchi was heard frantically asking Mulero to make a video recording of the retraction to save the Army from embarrassment. The victim, however, refused to retract his statement, insisting that he was flogged and badly wounded.

Disturbed by Mulero’s stance, Onyebuchi said: “The story says ‘Soldiers escort herdsmen to Ogun villages… At that point, the soldiers seized him and beat him mercilessly…’
See, this is a big allegation and we will not take it for granted.

“The (Nigeria) Army got in touch with Alamala (35 Artillery Brigade), which in turn sent me here. I have to write a report on the investigation because I must report back to the person who sent me here.

“…I want you (youth leader) to video him (Seye) because your name is what we have in the petition. Your name is what we have, so you (youth leader) will record him now, he will call his name and say that nobody touched him.”

Onyebuchi then asked that Mulero be filmed while refuting the story that he was beaten by soldiers who escorted herders to the village.

“He will call his name as you are recording him and say that all these are false. Nobody touched him and whatever he said, nobody forced him to say; he said it out of his freewill in the presence of the Baale and the youth leader and, of course, members of the community.

“Are you getting me? Go ahead…if that is done, I think I am okay with it.”

The soldier however warned that the failure of the victim to make the retraction might force the Army to return to arrest him as well as shun any distress call from the community.

He said: “Let me tell you what this thing means. There’s a need to clear this air. If you don’t clear it, next time when they call, the Army will not respond because you people have alleged and penned the name of the Army in a bad light (sic) and the Army will not respond when there is an emergency in this place.

“If they don’t respond, you can’t blame them. So, the need to clear this is very important. If I were you, I would come out clear because your name is everywhere in the petition they wrote; that you were beaten mercilessly, and look at you here.

“Say it that whoever is doing it is doing it on his own; that you didn’t send anybody.

“If you like, pretend to feign lack of understanding by saying ‘mi o gbo, mio gbo (I don’t understand)’, that is your problem… If tomorrow they come here and pick you up that you were using the name of the Army anyhow, you will go in for it. So, the earlier you clear the air, the better for you.”

https://thenationonlineng.net/herdsmen-farmer-crisis-soldiers-storm-ogun-villages-again/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

They will always send foolish nyamiri or ewedu slaves to do their dirty jobs. We're not ready yet.

No ipob or easterner should talk about betrayal no more

John Oyebuchi aiding Fulani herdsmen??

These kinds of things my lead to mass killing of fulanis...and it will affect innocent Hausas.

Captain Onyebuchi in Ogun, and Major Adeyeye in Imo, leading Fulani projects in the south is not an accident. Connect the dots!

helinues:
John Oyebuchi aiding Fulani herdsmen??

Obviously according to the report and he went back to intimidate the villagers by flogging them into submission

The Nigerian Army is using the South against the South.



...and all the soldiers do is obey the last order.


What a country.

weyreypey:

Obviously according to the report and he went back to intimidate the villagers by flogging them into submission

So we have some southerners that are backing the terrorist Fulani herdsmen?

That's 3daful

chatinent:
The Nigerian Army is using the South against the South.



...and all the soldiers do is obey the last order.


What a country.

How do you mean by Nigeria army using South against south? I thought Fulani are the one aiding the herdsmen?

Btw, if the report is true, the said John is only doing that for his selfish gain abi you want to say his region people are also in supporting?

Ipob arectually the problem of Nigeria
Betrayals them be

Chai which kind people are some nairalanders sef

Just imagine captain John onyebuchi an Igbo, church goer man treacherous.

Tinubu, Soyinka and Sowore brought the herdsmen to Aso rock and into power

BigSarah:
Chai which kind people are some nairalanders sef

How?

OfoIgbo:
Tinubu, Soyinka and Sowore brought the herdsmen to Aso rock and into power

And they're paying for it

Daft thread, Capt John Onyebuchi is a soldier and was only following orders. Afterall a yoruba police CP ordered the arrest of culprits In Eggua Ogun state responsible for burning properties belonging to the Fulanis led by Sunday Igboho.

NwaAro:
Daft thread, Capt John Onyebuchi is a soldier and was only following orders. Afterall a yoruba police CP ordered the arrest of culprits In Eggua Ogun state responsible for burning properties belonging to the Fulanis led by Sunday Igboho.

Daft response. John onyebuchi a rep of the Igbo is a betrayer

weyreypey:

Daft response. John onyebuchi a rep of the Igbo is a betrayer

Daft yoruba man, this is an extract from the report of the arrest made in Ogun state and approved by a yoruba man, your "find whom to blame" shameless tactics won't save you this time.



The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said in a release on Friday that the police would not condone further assaults on herdsmen, adding that some suspects had been arrested and would be punished so as to serve as a deterrent to the public.

He said, "There have been some attacks in the past three days on herdsmen’s’ settlements in the state, especially in the Yewa part of the state. The command notes with sadness that the settlements affected have been in existence in the area for many years, in some cases over 20 years, and inhabited mainly by Nigerian herdsmen of Fulani extraction, some of whom were born and brought up in the area, and speak Yoruba language with proverbs fluently and elegantly. They generally qualified to be called fellow Yorubas.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/02/05/police-arrest-ogun-residents-attacks-fulani-warn-against-further-hostilities

IamWonderful:
Just imagine captain John onyebuchi an Igbo, church goer man treacherous.

General John Olubunmi Irefin was GOC 6th Division Nigerian Army when Igbos were attacked, he also led several other operations against Igbos. So much for betrayal and treachery.

weyreypey:
No ipob or easterner should talk about betrayal no more

General John Olubunmi Irefin also killed Igbos while he was GOC 6th Division Bori Camp, go and read about him and stop crying wolf.

istina:
Ipob arectually the problem of Nigeria
Betrayals them be

Tell that to General John Olubunmi Irefin, GOC 6th Division Bori Camp, who slaughtered Igbos for fun. Stop making noise about betrayal, be ready to eat the shit you give others.

chatinent:
The Nigerian Army is using the South against the South.



...and all the soldiers do is obey the last order.


What a country.

Fela called them zombies for a reason,
No break no sense
Zombie wey na one way
Joro, jara, joro

helinues:
John Oyebuchi aiding Fulani herdsmen??

Orders from above.

weyreypey:
No ipob or easterner should talk about betrayal no more

Order from above.

weyreypey:
No ipob or easterner should talk about betrayal no more

Are u senseless by nature?

Ojiofor:


Orders from above.

Stop okay...

What's the meaning of orders from above? Can't he do it for money?

What tribe is he from?

istina:
Ipob arectually the problem of Nigeria
Betrayals them be

That's the problem with average Nigerians.. A man probably committed a crime on his own and the blame is going on his region.

Why are you people like this?

How credible is even the news self?

OfoIgbo:
Tinubu, Soyinka and Sowore brought the herdsmen to Aso rock and into power

how can those three votes bring buhari into power?

privaldo:


Tell that to General John Olubunmi Irefin, GOC 6th Division Bori Camp, who slaughtered Igbos for fun. Stop making noise about betrayal, be ready to eat the shit you give others.

what did he do?