Afenifere sets up board to monitor activities of herdsmen

Peter Dada, Akure

In an offer to check the perpetual assault of herdsmen on the agriculturists in the South-West, the skillet Yoruba socio-social association, Afenifer,e said it had set up a board to screen the exercises of herdsmen in the area.

This was contained in a report issued toward the finish of the meeting of the affiliation held at the living arrangement of the pioneer of the gathering, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Tuesday.

The dispatch was perused to writers by the reputation secretary of the gathering, Mr. Yinka Odumakin.

The gathering which denounced the hazard of the herdsmen in the South-West and some different parts of the nation, said the report of the board would be appeared to the universal groups about the destruction the herdsmen were creating in the South-Western piece of the nation.

As indicated by the dispatch, " The herdmen can not keep on harassing us, we are agrarian groups in the South-West, a large portion of our kin can not cultivate again on the grounds that the herdsmen have assumed control over their farmlands , this can not proceed and that must stop quickly.

" To demonstrate our reality on this matter, we have enabled a board to go round every one of the groups in the South-West where the herdsmen have been completing a wide range of destructions, to do an on-the-spot evaluation and incorporate a narrative and report which we won't delay to advise the universal groups to take a gander at case if the Nigeria

government keeps on demonstrating that it is powerless or unwilling to tame the criminal exercises of these Fulani herdsmen."

On the current common conflict between the Yoruba and Hausa people group in Ile Ife, osun State, the Afenifere said the police ought to stop from adding tribal shading to the occurrence, repeating that it was unjustifiable for the police to be uneven in the capture of suspects in the mutual conflict.

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