POPULAR Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has said that excesses of Fulani herdsmen in Oyo State, particularly in the Ibarapa zone, have been checked. Ibarapa people, in the past days, had wondered if Adeyemo would visit Igangan as promised if the Fulani refused to leave Ibarapa community before the expiration of the ultimatum. Youths from all the towns in Ibarapa zone joined Sunday Igboho’s convoy in their hundreds with the motive of driving Fulani herdsmen away following their refusal to leave Igangan as demanded by Ibarapa people. Meanwhile, shortly after Sunday Igboho left Igangan, the house of the Sarkin Fulani of Oyo State, Alhaji Saliu Abdulkadir, was allegedly set ablaze by aggrieved youths in the town. When contacted, the Sarkin Fulani, Alhaji Saliu Abdulkadir, confirmed the incident.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 23, 2021 06:00 UTC