Herdsmen attack barbaric, evil-Isiaka

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…Says people may be forced to defend themselves
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun state, Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka, has described as barbaric and evil herdsmen attack on Owode Ketu Wednesday.

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He expressed huge displeasure over the continuous human carnage and destruction of property being perpetrated against local communities in Ogun West senatorial district, by assailants suspected to be fulani herdsmen.

Isiaka reacted during the launching of a book titled ‘A Warrior in Crisis: Memoir of a Sickle Cell Warrior, written by Dotun Oladipupo and held at Park Inn Hotel, Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.

In his goodwill message at the event, he noted that “while we thank God that the author has survived the crisis as described by book reviewer earlier, we should all also realised that our country is in another form of crisis: the Crisis of Herdsmen.

According to the APC stalwart, the latest attack by fulani herdsmen on residents of Owode Ketu, Igan Alade, Eggua all under Yewa North local government, in the early hours of Thursday, was not only barbaric but evil.

Miffed by the sustained attacks, a visibly angry Isiaka said “In Owode Ketu, Ijoun, Igan Alade, Iggua, within the last four or five hours, no less than three persons were said to have been kiilled by Fulani Herdsmen.

“They started attacking people yesterday at Ijoun, but the people survived that and ran to the Police for protection. As we sat here, report reaching me is that at least three people have been hacked down and as we speak, tension is rising in that part of the state. It is this same story of herdsmen”.

“We have less than 20million cows in Nigeria and they are making life difficult for over 200million people of us. It is unheard of, it is unthinkable. It is something we should all be concerned about because when security agencies are incapable to ensure peace, the people will be forced to defend themselves; and that is the beginning of anarchy.”

The frontline politician renewed his appeal to the federal government to stem the growing tide of wanton killings, not only in Yewa, Ogun State, but in the entire nation.

His words, “I am using this platform as a Nigerian, an indigene of Ogun state and a Yewa man, where most of these unwarranted attacks happen, that the government at all levels, federal, state and local government should rise up urgently and stop these nonsense and senseless killings of our people all in the name of cows.”

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