Pan-Yoruba Group, Afenifere, has rejected the arrest and subsequent parade of 21 Suspects in connection with the communal clash that ensued in the ancient city of ife, osun state, on march 8.
The group in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin says it objects the parade of the suspects in Abuja, saying the right place to investigate the crisis is Osun state.
“The Abuja show is undue sectional deployment of Federal might to intimidate and harass a party in the conflict”
Afenifere said the parade “is a direct fallout the threat of the interior minister after he visited Ife.
“The Minister is not on record to have visited any scene of conflict where Fulani herdsmen have inflected massacres on their host communities in the Southern and middle Belt communities since he was appointed”
The Ife crisis was sparked by the beheading of Yoruba vulcanizer and the subsequent parade of his severed head on a pole.How come there is no member of the Arewa community paraded by the police .
“We reject the one-eyed magistrate that the police has become in this matter and which we do not shy is as a result of the ethnic composition of the police presently”
“We demand the immediate transfer of the suspects to Osun state .We will resist this ethnic vengeance through the police except we see arrests from the Fulani aggressors in the Ife conflict”
