Mr Sunday Adeyemo, more known as Sunday Igboho, has said despite concerns over his safety by family members, he remains undeterred in his quest to rid the South-West from killer herdsmen, Njenje Media News reports.
He made this known in an interview with PUNCH on Sunday, adding that no human being can kill him and he will not be distracted.
In his words;
“I am not afraid of anything or anyone but God. God is the owner and controller of every soul. It is only God who can kill me. No human being can kill me, so I cannot be afraid of any mortal.
“My children challenge and persuade me to quit every day. They wave the caution sign to me every time. My wife is also very worried about the cause that I fight for but I have to do this for the liberation of my people, anyway. But I am equally worried about my people who are being dehumanised and oppressed in their own territory for no just reason. Those who should address the issue just fold their arms and watch because they have been compromised. This struggle is for the good of all so that when I am gone, they will not live in subjection.”
Njenje Media News recalls Igboho had given herders in Igangan community a 7 day deadline to leave the Yoruba town and proceeded to eject them at the expiration of the ultimatum, an action which drew mixed reactions from different quarters.as been in the news for asking herders, allegedly responsible for farmers-herders’ crisis, to leave some communities in Oyo and Ogun states.
On the possibility of working with Governor Seyi Makinde to end the spate of killings in Oyo State, he said;
“We are sure that the governor is able to feel the pulse of the people who are feeling the heat from the killer herdsmen and we believe that he will rise up to the occasion and do the needful.
“If they call me for a meeting to discuss the burning issue of security to end the impunity by the killer herders, I shall gladly oblige. I am ready for any genuine approach to stopping the herders’ madness against our parents, brothers and sisters in Yorubaland. Why should our people, harmless for that matter, be going through all the horrible experiences without getting justice? And everybody folds their arms, looking on as if nothing is wrong.”
He called on Yoruba people to be united and stop playing politics with the lives of the people.
He said royal fathers, politicians, the youth and the elders should speak in one voice, with no discord in Yorubaland.
According to him, Yoruba leaders should remember “that the first Oyo Empire was mowed down by this same set of people. The second Oyo Empire at Igboho, Oyo was equally destroyed by the same people.”
