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HERDSMEN MENACE: Killers of farmer in Ekiti won’t go scot-free –Fayose

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HERDSMEN MENACE: Killers of farmer in Ekiti won’t go scot-free –Fayose

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has condemned the killing of a 32 year old farmer in Ekiti State by suspected Fulani herdsmen and vowed that his government will ensure that whoever perpetrated the act will never go scot-free.

This was even as he called on the Federal Government to be alive to its responsibility of protecting the lives and properties of Nigerians, especially against the criminal herdsmen “now acting more like terrorists.”

The 32-year old, Olayemi Tunde, a father of two from Ipao, in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State was reportedly killed in his cassava farm by assailants believed to be the rampaging herdsmen currently terrorizing many states of the country.

Fayose, who condemned the killing on his twitter handle wrote, “How can we be having IDPs everywhere when no country is at war with us and we are not fighting civil war? Why are we becoming refugees in our own country owing to incessant attacks by supposed herdsmen? Why is the FG afraid to treat these criminal herdsmen as terrorists?

“I call on the FG, which controls all security apparatus in the country to wake up to its responsibility of protecting the lives and properties of Nigerians, especially against these criminal herdsmen that are now acting more like terrorists.

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“As God liveth, Ekiti under my leadership will not be a State where you kill anyone and go scot-free. Those who killed Olayemi Tunde in Ipao Ekiti yesterday (be they herdsmen or anything) will be fished out and punished in accordance with our laws. I sympathize with his families.”

 

 

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