My house set ablaze by my people, says Igboho
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Yoruba freedom crusader, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, has said his house was set ablaze in the early hours of Tuesday by traitors among his ethnic group.
Accordingg to the popular Yoruba activist who had last week given a seven-day ultimatum to the Fulani herdsmen occupying Igangan Community in Ibarapa zone of Oyo State to vacate the community, he was surprised at the attack and the fact that some Yoruba elements are supporting the kidnappers to set his house ablaze.
According to him, he got a call from one of the two younger brothers of his living in the building that some hoodlums had arrived the area at about 3am, shooting sporadically into the air before they broke into the gate and set the building ablaze.
“My major surprise and which I did not expect is for some Yoruba people to continue to offer support to Fulani and kidnappers. These Fulani are killing our brothers, kidnapping them and raping our women.
These are condemnable actions. My effort is aimed at all of us coming together to stop these atrocities in order for peace to reign in Yorubaland.
I am surprised that Yoruba people are supporting the Fulani herdsmen that they had to come here to set my house ablaze. Though I do not suspect anyone but this sort of thing cannot happen without an insiders’ support.
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“I only went to Igangan because government has never come to the assistance of the people and I felt I needed to go there to help them to drive away the Fulani kidnappers from our land and make it safe.
It is surprising that our Yoruba brethren would be supporting the Fulani herdsmen or why would they now come to my house to set it ablaze”.
He challenged the arsonists, describing their actions as cowardly, “If they know they want to fight me and if they believe they are courageous, why did they not come to where I live?
If they know they are brave and can fight and can shoot guns, they should have come to my personal residence, at least one of them would have been caught. I would have given you evidence. Either you would get here to find their dead body or find some with broken limbs”, he said.
Igboho who said he lost valuables worth about N50million said the arsonists came in about five vehicles but none of his two brothers in the house was injured having fled when the attackers arrived.
Director of Operation, Oyo State Fire Service Adeleke Ismail says investigations will be done to ascertain the cause of the fire incident in one of the houses in Ibadan of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, on Tuesday morning.
In an interview, Ismail noted that although no life was lost in the incident, property worth a lot of money were burnt.
The house, located in Soka area of Ibadan, was reported to have caught fire in which the waiting room and the corridor of the building were affected.
As at the time of filing this report, Ismail said that the cause of the fire could not be ascertained.
He confirmed that the fire fighters from the Oyo State Fire Service arrived in the scene few hours after the incident was reported to the station and quelled the inferno.
He also said some property items such as television and air conditioner sets, among other personal effects, were destroyed.
However, the Police Command in Oyo State, said that hoodlums set the house on fire.
The command’s spokesman, CSP Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed that the command also received a report on the incident.
Adeyemo (Igboho), popularly known as Sunday Igboho, recently gave a seven-day ultimatum to herders in the Ibarapa axis of Oyo State to leave the area.
He alleged that herders have been responsible for the killings and kidnappings of the residents of Oke-Ogun and Ibarapa.
But Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State insisted that the herders were not responsible for the insecurity.
Adeyemo later invaded Igangan community in Ibarapa axis of Oyo State on January 22, resulting in a clash in the community.
