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Sunday, March 7, 2021

Police arrest OPC Operatives in Ayete for capturing Wakili


There was disquiet in Ibarapa zone of Oyo State on Sunday as news of the arrest of some members of the Oodua Peoples Congress by men of the Oyo State Police Command filtered in.

The OPC members were said to have been arrested by men of the police in the state for effecting the arrest of the notorious Fulani warlord, Iskilu Wakili, who allegedly terrorized the Oyo communities.

Some local security operatives in Ibarapa, including Oodua Peoples Congress, Vigilante, and other groups, were reported to have arrested the notorious Fulani man on Sunday following a fierce gun battle.

Reports had it that Wakili and his gang were involved in the killings and kidnapping of several people in Ayete and adjoining communities in recent time.

Wakili had, in the wake of an eviction notice served on killer herdsmen in Ibarapa and Oke Ogun zone of the state by a Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, threatened that nobody dared to either attack or arrest him.

He was, however, captured barely seven days after his second-in-command, Isiaka Muhammadu, was arrested alongside four others.

The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, confirmed Wakili’s arrest in a statement made available to journalist by Kehinde Aderemi, his Special Assistant on Media, on Sunday.

Aderemi in a telephone interview with Journalists on Sunday had hinted that the OPC men who arrested Wakili had, in turn, been arrested by the police and were being interrogated on why they went for him (Wakili).

Wakili is notorious for seizing farmland, raping women and kidnap of members of the host communities for ransom.

While reacting to Wakili’s arrest on Sunday, some residents of Ibarapa said, “With the eviction of the Seriki Fulani, Saliu Abdulkadri, from Igangan in Ibarapaland, residents had thought that the end had come to the oppression and constant anguish to which the farmers were subjected.

With the exit of Seriki, Wakili had waxed stronger as he mounted no cross-zone on farms in an apparent bid to send warnings to the people of the town and the adjoining communities that he could not be evicted. He was reported to have shot farmers who trespassed the no cross-zone.

Wakili, a Fulani herdsman whose origin many don’t know, speaks fluent Yoruba.

He is said to be the leader of the herdsmen in the Ayete area of Ibarapaland and works with dozens of herders who are his disciples. Together with his battalion of herders, he displaced farmers and forcefully invaded their farms with cattle.

It was learnt that Wakili had recently shot at an emissary that was said to have been sent by Baale Odomofin, the traditional ruler in control of Gbangbangere, Konko, Dagbere, Kajola, Magbeje, and other hamlets in Ayete, who were sent to serve him a quit notice.

Meanwhile, a top security personnel in Oyo State who spoke with with our Correspondent on the condition of strict anonymity on Sunday, had said, four OPC members were arrested by the police in connection with Waikili’s arres. He refused to speak authoritatively about the arrest saying his men were not involved.

The Police in the state has yet to confirm the arrest of the OPC men. When contacted Olugbenga Fadeyi, the Police Public Relations Officer, said, he has no detail about that saying  OPC are not police.

 

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