Pan-Yoruba political group, Afenifere, on Wednesday, ordered killer Fulani herdsmen to move out of the South-West, declaring that refusal to comply with the directive within as reasonable time might lead to confrontation by the Yoruba.
The group, while expressing serious concern about the high number of deaths in the region and the country in general caused by the Fulani herdsmen. which it put at 30,000 between 2015 and 2019, and holding the Federal Government responsible and accountable for such killings of innocent citizens, warned the National Assembly not to amend the Land Use Act with the intent to change the predominance of land allocation in states to the Federal Government which may allow for the implementation of the suspended Ruga project.
A leader of the group, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, issued this order at a press conference in Lagos, with other leaders and members in attendance, even as he sounded it very loud and clear that corporate Yoruba had never questioned the continued existence of Nigeria, expressing the hope the no one pushes Yoruba to that.
Those in attendance included Professor Banji Akintoye, Professor Akin Osuntokun, Dr Femi Okunrounmu, Mr Yinka Odumakin, Chief Supo Shonibare, Alhaji Sola Lawal, among others.
“We demand their immediate exit from Yorubaland and if they refuse to leave in a reasonable time, we will not stop our people from confronting them.
“Yorubaland has now become the epicentre of the terror of these Fulani marauders and our people are fed up with the shedding of innocent blood that is quite anathema to our respect for human life which would see us remembering those who died peacefully 50 years down the line,” Adebanjo said.
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