Buhari, Makinde Dragged To Court Over Herdsmen’s Killings In Oyo

President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State have been sued over the alleged killings by Fulani herdsmen in some parts of the Oyo state.

Naija News reports that a human rights lawyer, Femi Aborisade dragged both leaders before a Federal High Court in Ibadan on Thursday.

Other defendants in the suit filed by the lawyer are the Attorney General of the Federation, State Commissioner of Police, and state Commissioner for Justice.

In his application, Aborisade asked the court to order Buhari, Makinde, and others to arrest, investigate and prosecute suspected armed herders, suspected armed robbers and suspected kidnappers who commit crimes and other offences in Ibarapa land.

The lawyer said he had been unable to visit members of his family living in Itasa, a town in Iwajowa Local Government Area for the past one year over fear of being attacked.

Aborisade noted that unless the reliefs sought by him in this application are granted, “insecurity, menacing threats to life and property in the aforementioned local government areas of Oyo State will continue unabated”

He asserted that criminal herders have violently attacked many farmers and dispossessed them of their farmlands in Ibarapa Central, Ibarapa East, Ibarapa North, including Igangan; Atisbo, Irepo, Iseyin, Itesiwaju, Iwajowa, Kajola, Oorelope, Olorunsogo, Saki East & Saki West Local Government Areas of Oyo State.

The lawyer added that scores of women and girls have been abducted and raped by the armed gangs and bandits in the aforementioned local government areas making up Ibarapa and Oke-Ogun geographical areas of Oyo state

However, the court has yet to fix a date for a hearing.