Following intervention of the Oyo State Government and the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Chief Gani Adams, the three members of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), who were detained for alleged attack on Fulani leader, Iskilu Wakili, have been released by the state police command.
The suspects were said to have been released by 5:40 pm. The OPC members arrested Wakili who had been variously accused by Ibarapa residents that he was behind atrocities being committed in the area by the herders.
The Coordinator of the OPC in the state, Mr Rotimi Olumo, confirmed arrest of the OPC men.
When called upon, the Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Gbenga Fadeyi was reportedly unreachable for confirmation as his phone was switched off, Vanguard reported.
It will be recalled that, accused of being ‘Fulani war lord’ behind kidnappers in Ibarapa, Oyo State, was said to be blind and could not walk on his own.
It will also be recalled that Sariki Fulani of Oyo State Alhaji Salihu AbdulKadir had similarly been accused of being behind the same crimes with references to the killing of Fatai Aborode until the governor, Seyi Makinde, declared that Fulani were not responsible for it.
Sunday Igboho, the tribe fighter who is fighting Fulani in Oyo and parts of Yoruba Land,had accused them of kidnapping and killing Prince Dennis Abuda in Edo on his way back to base in the United States of America and that the Ekiti oil and gas magnate, Mr. Sulaiman Akinbami, also kidnapped and released later was victim of Fulani’s criminalities in a bid to take over Yoruba Land.
Igboho’s claims were later neutralised when police arrest showed Abuda’s killers to be criminals of Edo tribe and Akinbami in Ekiti declared in a media interview that his kidnappers were criminals of Yoruba tribe.
In the only media opportunity given Sariki Fulani AbdulKadir, he said he was wrongly accused pointing to achievements of Oyo State Police Command over arrest of criminals among Fulani and Yoruba tribes in the area due to his provides information.
It has, however, been established that crime neither has tribe nor respects any religion and so, that Nigerians should learn, while having to say something if they see something, to deal with criminals as criminals and stop ethnic or religious profiling of criminals because no tribe or religion teaches or preaches criminality.
