The Presidency had last week also faulted Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu for ordering Fulani herders to vacate the State’s forests reserves
The inspector-General Of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the arrest of Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho for giving an exit ultimatum to Fulani in Oyo State.
Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammdu Buhari on Media and Publicity was quoted as saying this during an interview with BBC Hausa.
In a BBC report, Shehu said the IGP had informed him in a phone that he had ordered the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko, to arrest Igboho and transfer him to the force headquarters in Abuja, the federal capital.
According to the report, “Garba said he just got off the telephone with the Inspector General of the Nigeria Police, who confirmed to him that he had ordered the arrest of Igboho, who is to be brought to Abuja.
“Igboho is among topics that have generated public discuss on social media in Nigeria on Friday since he visited Igangan in Ibarapa Local Government (of Oyo State) where he insisted that all Fulani residents in Oyo State, must leave as long as kidnapping continues.
“Mallam Garba Shehu said the government was having a hard time punishing (such) offenders because of the activities of human rights organisations.
“Garba Shehu said the order given by the Inspector General of Police, for now, is that Igboho should be arrested and brought to Abuja to be taken to court to face prosecution.”
Igboho, the Akoni Oodua of Yoruba land and a grassroots politician, had given the Fulani herdsmen in Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State to seven days ultimatum to leave the area, blaming the leadership of the Fulani of its involvement in the rising insecurity across Oyo State.
The Presidency had last week also faulted Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu for ordering Fulani herders to vacate the State’s forests reserves after it was discovered that bandits and kidnappers were using the place to perpetrate their evil acts.
