The leaders of the state’s Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association have been called before the Oyo State House of Assembly.
The association’s leaders were requested by the MPs to appear before them and discuss their responsibilities in the recent incident that occurred in the Iwajowa Local Government Area.
Deputy Speaker, Hon. Muhammad Fadeyi, presided over the plenary on Wednesday, when they gave the order.
Four (4) fatalities were reported earlier by OBASANJO NEWS24 as a result of a confrontation that took place in the Iwajowa Local Government Area.
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The MPs demanded that the State Police command step up security in the area while also denouncing the attack.
The Fulani herders who are accused of carrying out the massacres were also demanded to be detained by the House.
These resolutions were passed in response to a motion made by Anthony Ogunsola, a member of the Iwajowa State Constituency.
Ogunsola asserted that the incident resulted in the deaths of no less than seven (7) persons, while also injuring a number of others.
“Mr. Kege Mayowa, an Ohori farmer, was killed on his field in the hamlet of Apakolo by yet-to-be-arrested Fulani herdsmen after the late farmer questioned his attacker while the herders were grazing cows on the farm, the speaker claimed.
“Immediately following the murder, Operation Burst, the police, Amotekun LG Vigilante, and Oodua Peoples’ Congress, OPC, members were alerted and dispatched to the scene as a team of combined security agents.
But when the team of security personnel approached, the herdsmen opened fire, killing Mr. Ojo Yakubu (an Amotekun employee), Mr. Wasiu Salau, also known as Federal, and Mr. Akeem Iroko.
The herdsmen also injured Mr. Kazeem Hammed, another Amotekun cop, and Mr. Muraina Jamie, an Apakolo resident, while leaving many others at various unnamed hospitals for treatment. On Monday, the 16th, the crisis worsened and three more members of the Fulani community perished.
He said that in order to prevent such assaults, security authorities must have policies in place.
“Our people are primarily farmers, whereas the Fulanis rely on their cattle for survival,” he claimed. It is totally intolerable for the herders to be ruining the agricultural land of our people.
We are pleading with the Oyo State Commissioner of Police to guarantee that the escaping herdsmen who committed the killings are not only apprehended but also charged.
