Gunmen suspected to
be Fulani herdsmen invaded Igangan community on Sunday, killing more than 10
residents.
Parents on Monday
afternoon stormed some schools in Iyete, Igangan and Tapa in the Ibarapa North
Local Government area of Oyo state to withdraw their children.
SaharaReporters
gathered that news of another attack on residents of the areas by unknown
gunmen got to the communities after children had arrived in their schools.
It will be recalled
that unknown gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen invaded Igangan community
on Sunday, killing more than 10 residents.
Confirming the
development to Saharareporters, the Elepe Tapa, leader of a community in
Igangan area, Oba Titiloye Oyekanmi Sunday, said people have been running
helter-skelter to ensure they took their children from schools.
"We couldn't
sleep till this morning. We just heard that those Fulani people are
restrategising to attack us again but they didn't tell us the precise time. No
presence of security agencies here. We need government now," he said.
Our correspondent
learnt that Ayete, Igangan and Tapa are the major communities within Ibarapa
North Local Government Area.
The Convener,
Igangan Development Advocates, Mr. Oladiran Oladokun had on Sunday said one of
the sons of the Seriki Fulani of Oyo state who was chased out of Igangan,
Ibrahim Saliu had vowed to ensure Igangan is razed to aches.
Oladokun in a
statement on Sunday said; "No state security apparatus got to us during
the storm. If we had not made a little cover, perhaps Igangan would have become
a dunghill of ashes."
Oladokun therefore
advocated for the relocation of the base of Amotekun Corpa in Igangan,
conversion of Igangan Police outpost to headquaters, among other things as
solution to the challenges facing Igangan.
He further said:
"When the chips were down, our local hunters were the last man standing.
Let the state via Igangan Development Advocates (IDA) get their list and use
IDA to empower them with necessary logistics. We suggest that the government
should relocate Amotekun base to Igangan, empower Amotekun to carry pump
actions.
"It is time we
deploy extreme measures for this extreme situations even if someone's toes will
be stepped on. The state is empowered to make legislation towards her security,
therefore let the state flex some muscles.
"On numerous
occasions, Ibrahim Seriki Saliu son kept pledging that Igangan will be raze
down to ashes.
He had the audacity
to proclaim this on social media as well as on radio shows, perhaps his words
were taken as mere groans but local Vigilantes at Igangan kept receiving the
news of impending danger.
"The state I
believe thought it's just another hype, for we notified the state of our fears
on the 14th of april when covert information reached us of a meeting of the Fulani
towards fulfilling their oath of allegiance towards reprisals
"Today we lick
our wounds
We suffered heavy
loss and casualties
The Fulani
fulfilled their pledge.
I cannot say the
same for those who are supposed to see to our security."
Meanwhile SaharaReporters
learnt that some of the assailants who were killed include two aides of the
Seriki Fulani.
A source who
confirmed the incident to our correspondent on the phone said they attacked
Igangan as reprissal attack to revenge on Yoruba people.
"People
recognised one of the four assilants killed by hunters as an aide to the Seriki
Fulani. We know he was behind the attack. We are ready for them. Let them come
now. Our people including the elders are not sleeping again. We don't want any
Fulani and their herds in Ibarapa land again," he said.
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