The Igangan Development Advocates has explained why they threw their weight behind activist, Sunday Adeyemo, otherwise known as Sunday Igboho.
IDA said the people of the town and other communities in Ibarapaland in Oyo State have been under constant attacks and oppression of Fulani herdsmen in the area.
The community said herdsmen lynched anybody that dare to challenge their atrocities.
This was contained in a statement released on Saturday by the IDA’s convener, Mr Oladiran Oladokun.
The convener said the people had been crying for freedom for a long time with no one to help.
The IDA convener said the people needed somebody who would remove their oppressors’ burden from their necks and Igboho offered to do that.
He said, “For years, farm plundering was their full-time business, growing audaciously in bounds even as the Seriki Saliu ensured no Fulani was prosecuted for offences they were caught committing.
“With no disciplinary measures ever meted at the now reverential Fulani herdsmen, their audacity has grown from just grazing upon the sweats of Ibarapa farmers to maiming and lynching any farmer who dares to raise a voice.
“Igangan and Ibarapaland are a peaceful place where the Fulani culture of undue exploitation under the draconian reign of their kingpins became cancerous.
“No one was spared that was why everyone was there when Sunday Igboho responded to our cry.”
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