BY AYO ESAN
PAN Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, has urged Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State to do all within the law to flush Ondo forests of all criminals.
Afenifere, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, on Wednesday, said all other governors should emulate their chairman and free their lands “from the Fulanis who have surrounded us with the shield of FG”.
Afenifere said the intervention by the Federal Government of Nigeria on behalf of the Fulanis in Ondo State against the lawful government in that state did not come to it as a surprise.
“It is in line with non-pretence by this regime that it represents only Fulani interests against those of Yoruba, Igbo, Junkun, Ijaw and other tribes in Nigeria,” the statement said.
It read, “That the Federal Goverment and its minion, Garba Shehu, could only hear Ondo State when Governor Akeredolu was very loud and clear about herders to vacate forest reserves in the state is symptomatic that this Goverment has a serous problem with hearing the rest of us when the issue involves its annointed Fulanis.
“The Fulani criminals have caused untold hardships in Ondo State and other Yoruba towns and cities in recent time and only an irresponsible government that wants to behave like our Federal Government will continue to fold its arms.
“Are Ondo Forest Reserves under Ondo state Government or FG and Miyetti Allah?
We agree with the Ondo State Goverment that the insensibility of Garba shehu violates the corporate existence of Nigeria.
“What has this government done to assure our people that it can protect our lives with the open murders of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, The Olufon of Ifon and the Deputy Registrar of FUTA among many others?
“The lives of our people and other non-Fulani communities are daily being taken by local and foreign Fulani bandits without any sign that these lives matter to the government with its desire to shield the Fulani from the laws.
“Nobody would ever have believed that it would get to this irresponsible stage that the Federal Government will come to this barbaric level Garba shehu has taken it and the peak of their direct salvos against Amotekun since it started.”
