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Olufemi Olaniyi, Ibadan

THE Coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress in Oyo State, Mr Rotimi Olumo, said members of the group had been mobilised to start combing bushes, hamlets and villages in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State to expose herdsmen killing and kidnapping in the area.

Olumo said this following the killing of a former House of Representative candidate, Dr Fatai Aborode, who was shot and hacked to death by herdsmen on his way back from his farm on Friday evening.

He said apart from Aborode’s killing, farmers in Igangan had come under the frequent attacks from criminal herdsmen.

Olumo, who spoke in an interview with our correspondent in Ibadan on Monday, said the destruction of lives and properties being perpetrated by some herdsmen in Oyo State had become worrisome and embarrassing.

The OPC coordinator called on Governor Seyi Makinde and all traditional rulers in the state and the South-West to rise up and make sure that criminals were not allowed to take over the control of the region.

He said, “We have mobilised our people to stand up and start moving from one hamlet to another to flush out the killers there. You remember that we recently engaged those of them in Kishi forest and dislodged them. I believe they have relocated to Ibarapa area, but we will chase them out.”

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