Oyo state kidnapping saga: Sacked Seriki Fulani relocates to Ilorin

The Seriki Fulani of Oyo State, Saliu Abdulkadri, who was sacked from Igangan in Ibarapa axis of the state by a Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo popularly called ‘Sunday Igboho’ following alleged killings of indigenes of the community has relocated to Ilorin Kwara State.

Penpushing reports that, sources said the embattled Fulani leader was received on arrival by his kinsmen in Ilorin, and was quoted saying that after he left the community he has not been giving fair hearing by those who sacked him.

“I have not been called for any meeting as we speak. If we are asked to return to Igangan where are we going to live? My house and vehicles had been completely razed. But if given opportunity to return to the community, I would consider moving back to Igangan’.

“When we were sent out of Igangan, we moved to Ilorin in Kwara State. As we speak, I am in the north but my children are in Ilorin. I have a building in Ilorin. I don’t have anything to say because I did not offend any member of the community”

“The hoodlums who are indigenes of Igangan were once arrested and they are still at the Agodi Correctional Facility in Ibadan. Their ringleader is called Janbele; he is with the police now. That is one of the issues that are causing animosity between us and members of the community,” he said.

Penpushing also reports that the Fulani community leader  at a press conference on Thursday in Ilorin  denied any involvement in kidnapping and other criminal activities in the  community, alleging that seven of his kinsmen died, while his property worth over N500 million was destroyed by the mob led by Igboho.

The Seriki confirming incessant kidnapping and raping in the community alleged that both the Yoruba indigenes of the area and the Fulani were culprits, lamenting that, “my houses,12 vehicles belonging to myself, my children and some visitors were burnt and seven of my people were killed.”

Penpushing reports that he said he had always worked with security operatives in fighting crime in the area to the knowledge of leaders and elders of the community, adding that, “there was no case of farm destruction reported to me that I will not send people to go and look at the farm that was destroyed. If discovered that it’s true, I will order the Fulani to pay money to the farmers,”.

The Seriki Fulani and his kinsmen,it is recalled  left Igangan in Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State last Friday on the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum issued to them by Igboho, who accused  Abdukadir of harbouring the herders allegedly kidnapping and killing residents of the community.

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