IFE CRISIS: POLICE UNFAIR TO YORUBA, SAYS AFENIFERE

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he pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organization, Afenifere has criticised the Police over the manner they handled the recent Hausa/Fulani crisis in Ile-Ife, Osun state.

It emphasised that the Police are not fair to the Yorubas.

At its meeting held Tuesday at the residence of its leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti in Akure, the Ondo State, Afenifere condemned the action of the Police, especially the arrest of 20 Yoruba people.

The group accused police of bias and sectional in the way they handled the matter.

The Publicity Secretary of the organization, Yinka Odumakin, who read the communiqué issued at the end of the meeting said “Afenifere becomes worried with the way the Police handled the Ife crisis, especially considering the fact that the leadership of the presidency and that of the Police are from one of the sections involved in the crisis.”

Afenifere therefore urged the Police to investigate the crisis with utmost fairness and in line with the ethics of the profession.

It insisted that the suspects arrested in connection with the crisis must be returned to Osun State where the offence was allegedly committed, rather than being tried in Abuja.

Afenifere advised the Police to stop further dehumanizing of the suspects, warning them against further sectional judgment.

The group noted that the office of the state Attorney General should be given roles to play in the constitution, stressing that on Ife crisis, the office of the Attorney General of Osun State and the Ministry of Justice as a whole should be the one to advise the Police on the matter.

On Fulani herdsmen, Afenifere said a seven-member panel has been set up to move round all the communities in the South West to ascertain the level of damage done by the Fulani herdsmen.

Besides,it charged the Governors the northern states to build ranches within their states to avoid invasion of farm land by cattle. READ MORE