- The group describes as unfortunate the arrest 20 Yoruba persons, including a monarch, by the police when not a single Hausa/Fulani suspect was detained
- The OPC accuses a former Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, of influencing the arrest of the 20 Yoruba suspects
The OPC has called on the FG to arrest Hausa suspects involved in the Ile-Ife crisis.
A pan-Yoruba group, Oodua People’s Congress, (OPC), has given the federal government 48 hours to arrest the Fulani/Hausa suspects involved in the crisis in Ile-Ife, Osun state.
The OPC founder, Fredrick Fasehun, who
gave the ultimatum in a statement on Thursday, March 23, noted that
Fulani/Hausa suspects need to be arrested for justice to prevail, The
Punch reports.
The group said: “We
hereby call on the Federal Government to intervene within the next 48
hours to ensure that justice is institutionalised and no side is
provoked to defend justice according to its whims and caprices. Various
communities have Abraham as their father. A word is enough for the
wise.”
It described as unfortunate
the arrest 20 Yoruba persons, including a monarch, by the police when
not a single Hausa/Fulani suspect was detained.
“The
police and the Federal Government appear determined to make scapegoats
of Yoruba living in Ife over this crisis. It is unfortunate, strange and
insensitive that two people are fighting and authorities are arresting
only one party in this unfortunate mayhem.
“We
sympathise with all victims and casualties over this moment of madness
that has eroded two centuries of harmonious cohabitation between the
Hausa settlers and their Yoruba hosts. But we demand equal treatment of
everyone involved on both sides of this crisis,” the group said
The group accused a former Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, of influencing the arrest of the 20 Yoruba suspects.
It
likened Kwankwaso’s role is in the issue to the role played by
President Muhammadu Buhari in the Yoruba/Fulani clash in Ibadan in 2000.
The OPC has accused a former Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, of masterminding the arrest of the 20 Yoruba suspects.
It said: “Kwankwanso’s post-violence
role in Ife is akin to that played by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari who in
October 2000 travelled to Ibadan to challenge the late governor Lam
Adesina over the reprisal on Fulani herdsmen who had unleashed killings
on Yoruba farming communities.
“This
kind of bias will only embolden belligerent Hausa-Fulani throughout
Nigeria and give them pariah status amongst other nationalities,” the OPC warned."
The
group said it was unfortunate that 20 Yoruba persons, including a
monarch, were arrested and paraded by the police while not a single
Hausa/Fulani belligerent was detained
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