By our reporter| The Oyo State Police Command has said it was pursuing the yet to be identified hoodlums who set ablaze Sunday Igboho’s house in Ibadan on Tuesday.
The house of Igboho, the man who recently gave the Fulani one week to vacate the state was razed in the early hours of Tuesday.
In a statement, the Oyo state police command said investigation has commenced into the incident while the Police is on the trail of the hoodlums.
The statement read, “At about 0620 hrs of today 26/01/2021, report was received at Santo Police Station that some unidentified hoodlums came to Sunday Igboho’s house at SOKA area of Ibadan in a Hummer bus and Micra firing sporadically, and set the house ablaze.”
“The mini sitting room got burnt in the process while amount of other properties is yet to be estimated.
“Immediately the DPO Sanyo got wind of the incident, he contacted Fire service while he also went to the scene for on the spot assessment.
“The fire was eventually put out.
“Investigation has commenced into the incident while the Police is on the trail of the hoodlums.”
Reacting to the fire incident on Tuesday, Igboho who blamed arsonists who broke the gate to the building before setting it ablaze, said properties worth N50 million has been lost to the inferno.
He said, “Around 03:30 am this morning, my siblings living in my old house came to alert me that some hoodlums were at the house, shooting sporadically, and that they had forced the gate open and set the house ablaze.”
“My siblings escaped unhurt but my house was burnt. When we got there, the hoodlums had escaped so we called the fire service to put out the fire.
“I am surprised that some Yoruba people could be supporting killer herdsmen to destroy my house. This saddens me.
“My agitations are for all of us to come together against killer herdsmen who have been terrorizing the Yorubas by kidnapping, killing our brothers, and raping our women in Yoruba Land.
“I assure you if they had, I would have been able to give you evidence of the hoodlums that did this.
“The property destroyed in that inferno would not be less than fifty million.”
Igboho, an Oyo indigene, has been at the centre of the recent tensions between herders and the local community in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State.
South-West leaders on Monday met with the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) to “find lasting solutions to the incessant killings, kidnapping, and crises between herdsmen and farmers in the Southwest geo-political zone of the country.”
After the meeting, all parties agreed to ban night grazing and under-age herding, as well as illegal occupation of State Forest Reserves.
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