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Friday, 10 March 2017

Ile-Ife mayhem: drafted soldiers are partial, says Oodua group


Soldiers drafted to maintain peace in troubled Sabo area of Ile-Ife are supporting the Hausa-Fulani settlers, the Oodua Nationalist Coalition, (ONAC) said this evening. According to the group's leader at Ile-Ife, soldiers drafted to maintain peace following the fracas between Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani in the Sabo area have pitched tent with the aggressors. Mr Elubunmi Akintola the ONAC official said over 10 people have lost their lives in the fracas that broke out this morning. He told Irohinoodua in a chat at Ile-Ife this evening:

" What led to the crisis was that a Yoruba woman went to Sabo to buy goods. She is a married woman. An Hausa-Fulani man accused her of walking  in the  men dominated Hausa area of Sabo without showing respect to the mainly Hausa-Fulani traders. Two men grabbed the woman and slapped her. She protested. They brought out a knife and murdered her." He said the woman is married to an official of the National Union of Road Trasnport Workers, (NURTW).

According to him,this led to reprisal attack from the mainly Yoruba members of NURTW. " But an Hausa -Fulani trader Mallam Dani Kabiru who spoke to Irohinoodua said the woman was attacked but not killed. "There was a quarell between a Yoruba woman and one of us. The fight led to ethnic clash between Hausa and Yoruba people" he said describing the entire crisis as unfortunate. However Akintola said the soldiers drafted to the scene were largely of Northern Nigeria extraction accusing  them of taking sides with the Hausa-Fulani traders. He said 'since the soldiers were drafted here, they have been killing our people. I pity those politicians who parade themselves as Yoruba leaders because they do not understand the peril and the dangers ahead of Yoruba people They are lousy and empty in ideas. These settlers brought out sophisticated weapons to attack us. They brought soldiers but they too have been molesting our people and even invade sacred shrines like the Moremi tower." He said ONAC had written series of letters to the state government without any reply. 'Re wrote that there are heavily armed Fulani people across Ife villages and towns. They have been involved in rape and kidnapping, killing our people after which they withdraw to the forest. Some people call themselves Yoruba leaders but They practically know nothing about the dangers ahead

What we have seen here today shows that our ancestral home may easily be invaded and even our King is not save." He called on the Federal Government to withdraw the soldiers to avoid violent backlash. " This is a direct assault on Yoruba civilisation. No Yoruba person can do what they do here in Sokoto or Kano. They have taken Yoruba for granted. We were shocked by the sophisticated weapons these Hausa-Fulani brought out from their shops right in our homeland. This shows clearly that they are prepared at all times to turn our territories into rubble" Kabiru however said efforts were on to resolve the crisis saying that the Hausa Fulani residents in Ile Ife were not responsible for the fracas.

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