Herdsmen Crisis: We’re Evicting Violent Herdsmen Out of Osun – Seriki Fulani

The Seriki Fulani in Osun State, Alhaji Babatunde Ibrahim, said that members of the Fulani community in the state were making efforts to identify and evict criminal herdsmen.

Ibrahim, however, said no Fulani herder was planning to relocate to the North because the state was their home.

He also said proper identification of herders living in the state remained the only way to prevent violent herdsmen from invading the state.

In a similar manner, the Ondo State chapter of MACBAN said its members were still in the state and doing their legitimate business.

The state chairman of MACBAN, Alhaji Garuba Bello, said, “I cannot follow what some elders in the North are saying. I don’t know the Northern Elders Forum. I only know the leaders of my own group (MACBAN) and my leaders have not said anything like that. Apart from that, my members are safe here.”

But the Fulani community in Ebonyi State said it would not hesitate to encourage herdsmen who felt insecure in the state to relocate to the North.

The Eze (King) of Fulani Community, Ebonyi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, said, “What are we still doing here if my people begin to feel uncomfortable and unsafe?

“I would rather ask them to go back to the North, where we come from. I think it would be better that way.”

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