We don’t want cattle rearing in S/W anymore, Afenifere kicks

Reuben Fasoranti

AFENIFERE, a Pan-Yoruba Socio Political group has called for the stoppage of cattle rearing activities in South West states.

The group made this call at an emergency meeting in Akure Ondo State, saying that region could not tolerate the menace of Fulani herdsmen anymore.

According to the spokesman of Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, the activities of the herdsmen in the region have endangered the lives of the people and so therefore the cattle rearers should be stopped in every space of Yoruba land.

Calling for the arrest of the Fulani herdsmen who abducted one of the Afenifere leaders, Chief Olu Falae, the spokesman declared that Yoruba might resort to self-help to protect themselves if the police failed to apprehend he culprits.

In a communique read by Odumakin, the group said “We demand that nomadic cattle rearing should be stopped in every state of Yoruba land. “We believe now that after what has happened to Chief Falae, people would not tolerate such thing in any part of Yoruba land.

“So while we await the arrest of the criminals, the cattle rearing should be stopped in Yoruba land.

“Yoruba people go to any part of the country to trade, no history or record of such anywhere that the Yorubas destroy the business of their hosts. What we cannot do to others, nobody should do it to us.”

Odumakin said that the meeting” decried insecurity in the country as relate to the unrelenting bloodletting by the terrorist Boko Haram and the wave of unchecked kidnapping going on in the country.