A Fulani leader in the south-west, Alhaji Salihu Abdulkadir, said the recent killing of a Fulani boy and a farmer in the Igangan area of Ibarapa North-West Local Government, Oyo State, was not a revenge mission, as is being speculated in some quarters.
Abdulkadir spoke against the backdrop of the controversy generated by the killing, which led to the arrest of two suspects by the Oyo State Police Command.
City News learnt that on Sunday October 1, 2017, a Fulani man was hacked to death following an altercation with a farmer who allegedly accused him of stealing his yam tubers. The unnamed Fulani man died before he was rushed to the hospital.
But on Thursday October 5, another farmer also in the same Igangan area was reportedly killed by a Fulani man in the nearby village of Egberuwa. Both suspects - the Fulani man and the other Yoruba suspect - are in police custody.
However, the Fulani leader, who is also the president of the Jamu Nati Fulbe Association, a socio-cultural group of Fulani herders in the south-west in a telephone chat with our correspondent, said the issue was not an act of revenge as being insinuated.
According to him, the first incident happened at Akoya village, which is far from where the killing of the Yoruba man took place. He said that, however, the impression being created was that the Fulani people were responsible for the two killings.
Abdulkadir said, "It is being reported in the news that the Fulanis were responsible for the killing. Nobody is saying that one Fulani man was killed in Akoya village and one Yoruba man in another village which is far from each other. As a matter of fact, I was the one that handed that boy (Fulani) over to the police."
He also appealed for calm among the Fulanis in the area even as he cautioned members of the Fulani community against any form of criminality.
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