The Ooni of Ife, Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has said that “bad” Fulani herdsmen would be kicked out of the Southwest geopolitical zone.
Ooni Ogunwusi stated this while receiving the Emir of Borgu, Muhammed Dantoro Kitoro IV in his Ile Oodua Palace on Wednesday, according to a statement by his spokesman, Moses Olafare.
The traditional ruler lamented increase in cases of kidnapping and other violent crimes in Yoruba land despite the government’s assurances.
The Ooni said, “We keep hammering on the Fulani herdsmen trying to take over everywhere, it is the bad ones that we want to kick out and enough is enough, we will kick them and do justice to the peace and peaceful coexistence in our country.”
He added that there was a need to “separate the corn (wheat) from the shaft (chaff)”.
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“We want our country to be prosperous in peaceful coexistence, we do not want people to live in fear and that is the reason why we are trying to connect to one another as traditional rulers to find lasting solution to these of criminality.
“Everybody is saying they are Fulani herdsmen now, kidnapping everywhere. Enough of that! We must separate the corn from the shaft putting behind the past and letting peace reign in our land and in our country and that is what we stand for. We must join together to end this criminality being perpetrated by enemies of Nigeria with ungodly spirit irrespective of their tribes,” he added.
Responding, the Emir said, “We will definitely work together for the betterment of our people. Borgu is a mini Nigeria because it is one of the few places in the country where you can find all tribes coexisting peacefully.”