Popular Yoruba rights activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka
Sunday Igboho has declared he has what it takes to fight against Boko Haram
without the government’s support.
Igboho made this declaration in a video interview released
in 2020.
He said: “That which I will use in the fight against Boko
Haram, I have it already.”
The video resurfaced after the former Senator representing
Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, called on the Federal Government to invite Igboho
to help drive Boko Haram terrorists out of the Sambisa forest.
Following the recent activities of Igboho, which he said
were to rid the South-West region of killer herdsmen, Sani argued Igboho could
help end terrorism in the country, particularly in the North-East, if given a
chance.
He said the activist should be invited to help flush out
Boko Haram sect from the dreaded Sambisa forest in Borno State.
Igboho has been in the news since he flushed out herdsmen in
the Ibarapa area of Oyo State, blaming them for the cases of killing and
kidnapping in the area.
He also visited Ogun State recently, saying he was in a
community there “to help drive out killer herdsmen”.
Taking to his Twitter handle, Sani said: “Invite Sunday to
help drive away BH (Boko Haram) from Sambisa.”
The vast Sambisa forest is considered as one of the places
the jihadist Boko Haram group uses as its base and keeps hostages.
In the 2020 interview, Igboho was quoted as saying that the
Western Nigeria Security Network, also known as Amotekun, cannot be effective
with government control over the outfit.
He said: “These herders we are fighting against, they are
not after money, they only get orders from their leaders. Yoruba freedom
fighters should not be kept under Governors, these governors will turn the
fight against insecurity to business.
“Oyo State governor is of the Peoples Democratic Party,
Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, and Lagos state governors are all of the All Progressives
Congress and you want our own PDP governor here to support them, how will there
be unity?
“And all the powers in this country belong to someone who is
a Hausa-Fulani man. They established Amotekun and put it under a governor, the
same governor that will request money from the federal authority.
“Yoruba youths only if we can be willing to fight. I am not
asking for anything from anybody, what I will use in the fight against Boko
Haram, I have it.
“I don’t need it from a governor because a governor will try
to make money from it. He will claim he has spent a certain amount on Amotekun
and makes a profit from it. This will not result in something good.
“When they wanted to start Oodua Peoples Congress, was it
under any governor? Why is Amotekun meant to fight insecurity in the
South-West, under the police?
“That’s rubbish; these people are not ready to fight for the
Yorubas, they are simply looking for what to take from who.”
Igboho also said a time would come when people would rise to
defend their lands.
He however added that people would definitely lose their lives
in the fight while some would remain alive to enjoy the dividends.
He said: “A time will come we will all defend our
boundaries. All these governors are betrayers, all they are after is how to
make a profit and leave money for their kids.
“There’s no way people will not die when we want to attain
freedom. No one can rise and say he wants to fight the government, we should
unite. It doesn’t make sense that as freedom fighters, we stay under the
government and earn a salary.
“When they started security outfits in the North, did they
stay under any governor? Is Boko Haram under any government? These governors
are looking for what to eat, they are thieves. They have sold out.”
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