Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has urged Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, a prominent Yoruba rights activist, not to take the law into his hands.
While Igboho did well to speak for the downtrodden, the monarch said it was time to enable the constituted authorities, including the State Governor of Oyo, Seyi Makinde, to take care of the security problems in the state and deal with them.
” Let’ s just be very realistic. He (Igboho) is a mouthpiece for downtrodden people. He came up and everyone is listening now, but as a traditional ruler, my advice to him is that he needs to be very careful so that politicians won’ t hijack from him the whole motive.
He did well, and we were already praising him, but he wasn’ t allowed to take the laws into his own. We’ ve got the governor there, he’ s the state’ s chief security officer, and he’ s been invited by Mr. President (Makinde). Let it be done by the right people who are allowed to do what is right.
He (Igboho) did well, and he was heard by the world, but it should be done in moderation, Oba Ogunwusi said on a PUNCH- monitored Arise TV program on Wednesday.
The PUNCH had previously claimed that Igboho, who is the Yoruba Akoni Oodua, had requested herdsmen suspected of perpetrating crimes ranging from kidnappings, murders, rape to invasion of farmland with their cattle within seven days to leave the Oyo State Local Government Area of Ibarapa.
He and his supporters had stormed the Fulani settlement in Igangan at the expiration of the ultimatum last week to expel Seriki Fulani, Salihu Abdukadir, and the herders.
But the first- class Yoruba monarch advised the activist that the battle against banditry would cause the constitutionally empowered authorities to take over.
Oba Ogunwusi, who recently met in Aso Villa, Abuja, with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd. ), on the insecurity rocking the South- West region, said that in the name of politics, the current situation must not all be sensationalized.
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