– Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) calls for Fulani/Hausa suspects to be arrested for justice to prevail on the Ile Ife crisis
– The group describes as unfortunate the arrest 20 Yoruba persons, including a monarch, by the police when not a single Hausa/Fulani suspect was detained
– The OPC accuses a former Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, of influencing the arrest of the 20 Yoruba suspects
The OPC has called on the FG to arrest Hausa suspects involved in the Ile-Ife crisis.
A pan-Yoruba group, Oodua People’s Congress, (OPC), has given the federal government 48 hours to arrest the Fulani/Hausa suspects involved in the crisis in Ile-Ife, Osun state.
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The OPC founder, Fredrick Fasehun, who gave the ultimatum in a statement on Thursday, March 23, noted that Fulani/Hausa suspects need to be arrested for justice to prevail, The Punch reports.
The group said: “We hereby call on the Federal Government to intervene within the next 48 hours to ensure that justice is institutionalised and no side is provoked to defend justice according to its whims and caprices. Various communities have Abraham as their father. A word is enough for the wise.”
It described as unfortunate the arrest 20 Yoruba persons, including a monarch, by the police when not a single Hausa/Fulani suspect was detained.
“The police and the Federal Government appear determined to make scapegoats of Yoruba living in Ife over this crisis. It is unfortunate, strange and insensitive that two people are fighting and authorities are arresting only one party in this unfortunate mayhem.
“We sympathise with all victims and casualties over this moment of madness that has eroded two centuries of harmonious cohabitation between the Hausa settlers and their Yoruba hosts. But we demand equal treatment of everyone involved on both sides of this crisis,” the group said.
The group accused a former Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, of influencing the arrest of the 20 Yoruba suspects.
It likened Kwankwaso’s role is in the issue to the role played by President Muhammadu Buhari in the
The OPC has accused a former Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, of masterminding the arrest of the 20 Yoruba suspects.
It said: “Kwankwanso’s post-violence role in Ife is akin to that played by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari who in October 2000 travelled to Ibadan to challenge the late governor Lam Adesina over the reprisal on Fulani herdsmen who had unleashed killings on Yoruba farming communities.
“This kind of bias will only embolden belligerent Hausa-Fulani throughout Nigeria and give them pariah status amongst other nationalities,” the OPC warned.”
The group said it was unfortunate that 20 Yoruba persons, including a monarch, were arrested and paraded by the police while not a single Hausa/Fulani belligerent was detained.
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The OPC questioned why the Hausa-Fulani herdsmen who went on a killing spree in Southern Kaduna, Agatu and Chief Olu Falae’s farm have not been apprehended
It called on the federal government and the police to stop behaving as if Nigeria is the Hausa-Fulani’s conquered territory where they can kill and maim at will.
Meanwhile, Zenithblog.com has reported that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state, has revealed that his Benue counterpart – Samuel Ortom is making a mockery of his position in the way he is handling the herdsmen crisis.
His call is coming barely five days after the attacks in Zaki Biam, which led to the death of over 52 persons.
Wike said declaration of a state of emergency in Benue had become necessary because the governor, Samuel Ortom, had shown “ineptitude and lack of capacity to handle the situation.
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