Residents of Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State have called on the state governor, Dapo Abiodun, to come to their rescue on the alleged incessant killings and destruction of their farms by suspected herdsmen.
This is coming after a farmer, Dele Olowoniyi, and two others had been reportedly killed this week by suspected herdsmen.
The residents made their position recognized in a letter dated February nine, 2021, addressed to the governor and signed via the chairman of the transition committee of the neighborhood government, Olusola Oke.
They requested the governor to come back to their aid, claiming that they now sleep with their eyes open as they do now not recognise while the herdsmen might come and attack once more.
The letter titled, ‘Situation document on the activities of Fulani herdsmen in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area, Ogun State, store our soul’, partly read, “The situation in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area has become a awesome purpose of challenge and it is affecting the day by day activities of human beings at Imeko-Afon.
“Imeko Afon being a border metropolis has such a lot of influxes of tribes of which the Fulani herdsmen have turn out to be a hazard to lives and assets at Imeko-Afon without any recourse to the indigenes.”
Meanwhile, youths beneath the auspices of Yewa-North Patriotic Forum have issued a seven-day ultimatum to killer herdsmen in Yewa-North Local Government area of Ogun State.
The youths gave the ultimatum on Friday, 24 hours after suspected Fulani herdsmen killed five men and women in Owode-Ketu, Egua inside the council location .
The institution gave this ultimatum in a press declaration tagged, ‘YNPF to killer Fulani herdsmen: We can’t condone you beyond seven days’ and made to be had to Saturday PUNCH on Friday, in Abeokuta, the country capital.
The president of the institution, Sanni Omobolaji, signed the announcement.
He said villagers were living in worry and pains of the incessant killings which he said ought to best be traced to the herders typically, but refused to fight back, hoping that a brief solution might be proffered after lawsuits to the authorities.
The assertion read in part, “As responsible young humans in Yewa-North, we've got tried to ensure that our coexistence works, even, when we're the valid proprietors of Yewaland but, today’s grotesque killing of five of our humans has shown that killer Fulani herdsmen can handiest stay of their personal global.
“Now is the exceptional time to dissolve the marriage of inconvenience among our human beings in Yewa-North Local Government and the killer Fulani herdsmen as we can't condone these criminals past seven days in our area.”
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