People of Omu town, In Oye Local Government council in Ekiti State have been left shaken and in fear after a Fulani herdsman was decapitated by suspected ritualist.
Ahmed Dele 27 was decapitated just three days after news broke of a similar happening where a farmer was decapitated in Orisunmibare, a farmstead under Itaji Ekiti in the same local government council. The victim’s parents are Fulani from Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State. The shocking incident has generated tension in the area. However, it was gathered that the death might be linked to the bloody land dispute between Ayede Ekiti and Itaji.
The Secretary of the Jamunati Fulbe Association of Nigeria, Ekiti State Chapter, Idris Salaudeen, while confirming the incident, said, many of the herders were now afraid of going about their normal business, since they do not known the motive behind the gruesome killing of one of their members .
“Up till now there was no reported case of clash between the victim and any farmer in the area,” he said.
He called on the Federal Government and security agencies to save the Fulani community from what he called “unprovoked and unwarranted attack by unmasking the killers and bringing them to justice.”
“This is a very sad and frightening development considering what the country is going through in terms of insecurity,”
“There has been a lot of misconceptions and negative report about the activities of Fulani herdsmen in recent time.
“But I want to tell you that we are peace loving people and we have been living peacefully with our various host communities in Ekiti State.”
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