The Oodua Peoples Congress, on Sunday, said the men of
Nigeria Police Force in the Oyo State detained three OPC operatives for
arresting notorious Fulani warlord Iskilu Wakili, who has been accused of
sundry crimes in the Ayete area of Ibarapaland in the state.
Farmers and residents of Ayete
lived in perpetual fear of Wakili who was accused of displacing them from their
farms.
It was gathered that Wakili, who is said to be the leader of
the herdsmen in Ayete worked with dozens of herders who are his disciples.
Together with his battalion, they allegedly seized hectares of farmlands at
Ayete, raped the women in the rustic town, and kidnapped their rich men for
ransom.
Speaking in an interview on Sunday, Adedeji Oluwole, the OPC sector coordinator who led his operatives and other vigilante groups to arrest Wakili, said the suspect was nabbed on Sunday morning.
Oluwole, the Federal Capital Territory OPC coordinator, who
is also an indigene of Igboora, said he relocated four months ago to Ayete to
bring Wakili to book after security agencies failed to arrest him.
The OPC leader said it took over four days of continued
operations and surveillance to nab Wakili and three of his accomplices.
According to Oluwole, more than 10 OPC operatives went on
the mission. He said Wakili’s men shot fiercely at the OPC operatives before
they were eventually nabbed.
He, however, expressed shock that the police detained three
of his men after they handed over Wakili.
“My men are still in police custody now,” Oluwole told The
PUNCH on Sunday afternoon.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer in Oyo
State, Olugbenga Fadeyi, did not respond to calls put to his line. A text
message sent to his phone was also not replied to as of the time of filing this
report.
Details later…
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