Herdsmen crisis: Sunday Igboho’s strategy cannot work in Oyo, says Makinde’s aide
Taiwo Adisa, Chief Press Secretary to Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, says the strategy of issuing eviction notices used by popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, cannot work in solving the security challenges confronting the South-West state.
Adisa stated this on Thursday at a virtual town hall with the International Alliance for Justice and Peace, a Diaspora-based civil society organisation with interest in Nigeria.
Speaking on the topic, ‘Fulani Herdsmen’s Violent Rampage In Ibarapa: What Is The True Situation?’, the governor’s aide said the state was not in any form of competition with Igboho.
The PUNCH had reported that Igboho issued a seven-day quit notice to herdsmen accused of kidnapping, rape, farmland destruction, amongst other crimes in the Ibarapa area of Oyo and enforced same.
He had also confronted herdsmen accused of terrorising farmers and residents in the Yewa area of Ogun State.
There have been reprisals as criminal elements have since attacked and killed some farmers and residents of the host communities.
Speaking on Thursday, Makinde’s aide stressed that the state has nothing against Igboho but his strategy was not something the state could explore because of the possible repercussions
