By Adeola Badru
Yoruba Nation activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has issued a two-hour ultimatum to Fulani leaders in Igboho, Oyo State. He said they should raise the ransom of N150 million demanded for the release of a pregnant woman, her children and a sibling allegedly abducted by suspected Fulani gunmen.
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Igboho accused the kidnappers of terrorising residents of the community and insisted that the victims’ family would not pay the ransom reportedly demanded by the abductors.
According to him, the pregnant woman and her sibling were kidnapped in the dead of night in the Igboho area of Oyo State by suspected Fulani gunmen, who initially demanded a ransom of N300 million before reducing it to N150 million.
The activist maintained that Fulani leaders in the town should take responsibility for securing the victims’ freedom and bear the burden of any ransom payment, stressing that the victims’ family would not part with any money.
Addressing the Fulani leaders in Igboho in Yoruba, he expressed outrage over the incident and warned that he would not tolerate criminal activities in his ancestral home.
“You can’t be kidnapping in my father’s land and expect me to keep quiet. I’m an original indigene of Igboho land.“
“You kidnapped a pregnant woman, and the person who brought the ransom, you killed him and killed the pregnant woman, for what? In Igboho? You people are not even afraid of me in my father’s land?
“This should be the last and it must end. My father has urged me to address you people patiently. What I’m fighting in other people’s land, you can’t come here and be doing it in my father’s land,“ Igboho warned.
He further alleged that those responsible for the abduction were known to members of the Fulani community.
“You people kidnapped a pregnant woman, killed the person that brought the ransom and left one person. You are not even afraid of God. It’s your boys that did the job,” he said.
Questioning the pattern of abductions in the area, Igboho added: “Since you have been kidnapping here, have they ever abducted Fulani?“
“No, it’s the Yorubas they have been kidnapping and it should not be like that. This should be the last, and let us stay in harmony.”
Issuing a direct warning to the community leaders, he said: “I give you people two hours to release the woman, her children and her sibling who were kidnapped in the middle of the night. If I don’t see them within the next two hours, we will face each other.”
Igboho also claimed that investigations had traced the victims’ whereabouts to several locations linked to prominent individuals within the community.
“When we first tracked that number, it led us to Alhaji’s residence and they removed them from there in the middle of the night to Bani’s compound. They took them to Baale’s compound, where they currently are,” he alleged.
Rejecting any possibility of the victims’ family paying the ransom, he insisted that Fulani residents should collectively raise the money demanded by the kidnappers.
“We don’t have any ransom to pay. You Fulanis should raise that ransom among yourselves and pay because we don’t have such money to pay. They started from N300 million and brought it down to N150 million.“
“Fulanis should contribute the ransom and get the woman, children and her sibling released. If they are killed, we will have a problem,“ he maintained.
Meanwhile, the development has heightened tensions in the community, with residents awaiting the outcome of the ultimatum issued by the Yoruba Nation activist.
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