Herdsmen occupy Odu’a tomato factory, plotting attack –Ogun monarch


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May 19, 2019
FEMI MAKINDE and TUNJI BOSUN

The Onimeko of Imeko, Oba Oyeditan Olanite, has raised the alarm over a plot by Fulani herdsmen to attack his domain.

The monarch said this on Friday in an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH.

Oba Olanite said many Fulani herdsmen had already arrived in the town, adding that they took over about 4,000 hectares of land belonging to the Odu’a Investment Company and chased away indigenes of the town close to the land.


The monarch said the people of the town were afraid because they did not know what could happen next.

He, however, said the people of the town had held meetings which a top official of the Department of State Services attended, saying this was done to prevent a surprise attack on the town, a border community between Nigeria and the Republic of Benin.
Oba Olanite stated, “The leader of the herdsmen was brought to my palace today (Friday) and he said he came to that place through some people. I have called the Group Managing Director of Odu’a and I told him that herdsmen had taken over their land in Imeko.

“In 2018, Odu’a started work on the land which is about 4,000 hectares. They are planning to build a tomato paste factory on the land but they said they would train local farmers to grow tomatoes so that raw materials would not be in short when they start operations.


"But the herdsmen came and drove away all the farmers they met farming near the place. They grazed their cattle on their farms and destroyed their crops. Those ones fled. These herdsmen went further to dismantle the huts built by the farmers and used the materials to build their huts.

“They wanted to attack our people that went to meet them on Thursday but those ones ran away. They attempted to attack them with machetes but our people ran away.”

He further alleged that the herdsmen brought weapons to the land they were occupying illegally, adding that this prompted the meeting held in the community.

“I was told that the herdsmen said their target now is Imeko. They want to attack Imeko because they said the people of the town were the ones who resisted them from taking over this axis. They have a surreptitious plan to attack Imeko,” Oba Olanite said.


The monarch said he had written many letters to the police requesting the establishment of stations and police posts in communities in the Imeko-Afon Local Government Area but nothing had been done.

Recall that some herdsmen attacked Iwoye community in the Imeko-Afon LGA earlier this month and killed four persons.

The Ogun State Police Command said Iwoye was still under a security watch of the police in Nigeria and the Benin Republic.

The Police Public Relations Officer form the state command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, stated this on Friday.

It was learnt that crisis broke out after the cattle of the herdsmen flooded the community stream and polluted the water.

SUNDAY PUNCH gathered that the divisional crime officer in charge of Imeko and a police inspector were shot in one of the attacks.

A source told one of our correspondents that a native was killed by the herdsmen for challenging their action.

Further findings showed that the killing sparked crisis the community, which almost resulted in open confrontation between the indigenes and the herders.


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LOL! They're welcome by yoruba Muslims!

No problem with that,


we yorubas are accommodators.

Oga monarch this your talk will not stop these nefarious herdsmen from killing your subjects, in the name of every sane thing arm yourselves to the teeth.

Welcome development

V

Great and very good developments.

We need protein. Let the cows feed lush green grasses.

So many abandoned houses and factories in SW.

They are well covered.....their master and kinsman occupies the highest office in d land....

The man cried out o

The police should quickly intervene and make the necessary arrest of this report is true!!

we yoruba muslims hereby promise to resist any attack on this our noble visitors from the north....
signed
ishaq akintola for muric

It's a minor slave and master issue..It will be resolved amicably.

As a full blooded Yoruba man to the core all I am saying is that the fulanis are free to graze any where in ogun as long as they supply us enough meat and kpomo for our Amala and Ewedu.

Who asked for the tribe of the bandits?

If this ugly Fulani herdsmen menace trend is not properly handled, it might just be the catalyst for the implosion of this nation.

Lol... friends of MURIC

Guys I just start to sing,but is there hope that I would be good in singing

Okay. Next

Turantula:
Wetin concern me for master and slave quarrel

see idiot

they warned u guys not to vote for Buhari

We the yorrebers Muslim welcome them

the only thing herdsmen understand is force for force ,defend ur selfs.

south west is pro-herdsmen so nothing wrong in possessing their possession

Good news

Una never see anything, shey when they dey terrorised us down here, u guys think they ll never get to you.

Just last week, a Yoruba group raised alarm of the presence of over a thousand herdsmen's camp in forests in Yoruba land. No one paid attention, the elites who want favour from the Federal government as well as the Kabiyesis have turned blind eyes.

When these marauders invaded Chief Olu Falae's farm back then, some Yorubas were even tauting him to the amusement of his tormentors. His sin was because he was pro GEJ.

Yoruba land is already surrounded and infiltrated. It may not take a longer time before they strike

Buhari won't like this

Didinrin di iran. Afofun gbemu. quote author=Destiny34 post=78532568]LOL! They're welcome by yoruba Muslims![/quote]

sammyj:
The police should quickly intervene and make the necessary arrest of this report is true!!

you have to get rid of the immunity they are enjoying now before making arrest

Na wa

The igbo mod

Slaves and masters.
Not my business.