As the seven-day ultimatum issued to herdsmen occupying Ondo state forests by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, expires tomorrow, the National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Alhaji Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, has declared that no power can remove Fulani herdsmen from the state’s forests.
In an interview, Badejo emphasized that his people had settled in the area for over 250years as they are as much the owners of the land as the yorubas.
Continuing, he said, “all the lands in this country belong to the Fulani but we don’t have any business to do with land if it doesn’t have areas for grazing. If the land doesn’t have cow good, we won’t have business with it. We don’t sell land and we don’t farm. What we consider is the area that have cow food. If the place is good for grazing, we don’t need anybody’s permission to go there”.
It can be recalled that the Ondo State government issued the eviction notice as a result of incessant kidnapping, rape and murder allegedly perpetrated by the Fulani herdsmen in the forests of the state.
