Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, has reacted to the threat by Miyetti Allah Koutal Horeto establish a 5,000 members vigilance group in the 36 states of Nigeria.
According to the highly revered Yoruba leader, such a move and statement can lead the country towards anarchy.
Adams, who reacted to the statement in an interview with newsmen, called on the Federal government to immediately call the Fulani group to order before it is too late.
He spoke just as the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) alleged that the rumpus being created across Nigeria by Fulani herdsmen in the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore and other groups, is nothing but a plan to take over other people’s land by force.
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Said Adams: ‘Our people can’t go to their farms again. There is much security threat. It has caused famine in the land. Establishing a vigilante group by the Fulani in other people’s land is driving the country towards anarchy and nobody has a monopoly of violence.
‘They are condemning Amotekun and Ebubeagu. But it is only criminals that will have the fear for any region to have their internal security outfits. Why is Miyethi Allah challenging anything that happens in other regions? I think the Federal Government should not take their statement likely. If they do, it can affect the government.
‘If they want to organize a security outfit, it should be to help and support the government and not to work against the government. Have the Yoruba or the Igbo in Kano organised a parallel security outfit against Hisbah? No Yoruba community has said it wants to tackle Hisbah, because they know that Hisbah is serving the state government and the state government has the right to protect the interest of the people. Miyethi Allah is making a statement that can cause crisis in the country,’ he stated.
Secretary-General of the YCE, also known as ‘Igbimo Agba Yoruba,’ Dr. Kunle Olajide, said the Yoruba in the South West of the country are aware of the grand plan and would not allow such invasion.
He described the proposed deployment of a vigilante by the group across Nigeria, including the South West, as an absolutely bogus and a criminal trespass that Yorubaland would not take with levity.
Olajide stated that as law-abiding citizen, one could go to any part of the country because the freedom of movement is guaranteed under the constitution without fear of being molested. He added that the Yorubaland has not deviated from this and that the claim that Yoruba have been killing Fulani is absolutely false.
On the proposed deployment of Miyetti Alla vigilantes across the country, he stated that the forest in the South West, comprising Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, and the Ekiti States, belong to the state governments in the South West and not the Federal Government.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
