Alleged Fulani Herdsmen Invade Soyinka’s Abeokuta Home |The Source

By Akinwale Kasali

Days after Nobel Laurette Professor Wole Soyinka, criticised President Muhammadu Buhari’s silence as rogue Fulani Herdsmen wreak havoc on their host Communities, destroying properties and also Killing, maiming and raping residents, they have,  allegedly, invaded his country home in Abeokuta, Ogun State Capital.

The herdsmen reportedly arrived Soyinka’s home at Ijegba Forest, Abeokuta, early in the morning, but the intervention of the police saved the day.

It was gathered that the police were quickly called and they arrived Soyinka’s home and  prevented any attack on him.

Soyinka is said to have moved to Lagos following thr attack on his home.

When contacted, Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ogun Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi said he could not speak on the matter as he and others were on their way to Soyinka’s house.

He said he would speak later after visiting the place to see things for himself, but he is yet to get back to this Reporter.

Activist, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, confirming the incident in a statement, called it the limit of the atrocities by the rogue herdsmen.

However, unconfirmed source said some herdsmen have been arrested in connection with the attack.

Soyinka had told President Buhari to speak out urgently, to stop the herdsmen crisis before it snowballed into a civil war.

In an interview with BBC Pidgin, Soyinka had said the herdsmen crisis is already a war now “right on our door steps”.

He said it is expectedly triggering some kind of mobilisation and stressed the urgent need for resolution.

“If we continue to wait for the resolution to be centrally handled, we are all going to become, if not already, slaves in our land”, he said.

He said the situation is simply intolerable and unacceptable.

He said he has made Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State to understand what was going on.

“We are here not just to live, but live in dignity. Right now our dignity is being rubbished”, he said.

Soyinka who lives in Abeokuta inside a forest said his own space has been violated by the herdsmen.

“My forest has been taken over. It’s been shrinking, shrinking. My normal hunting rounds have been shrinking, shrinking”.

He said he has been warned by his family not to venture into the forest again for any game hunting.

Soyinka said Buhari’s silence amid the atrocities committed by the herdsmen, meant he is complicit to their crimes.