Nigeria risks getting many Igbohos, Kanus

Chief Rashidi Ladoja, a former governor of Oyo state has said that the Federal Government created Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Adeyemo Sunday also know as Sunday Igboho, and the leader of the Independent People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

Therefore, Ladoja said, Igboho and Kanu deserve to be given amnesty just as the government did to a number of Boko Haram insurgents that were also enlisted into some security agencies.

The Federal Government had abducted Kanu, the IPOB leader from Kenya on Tuesday June 27.while security agents took Igboho into custody in neighbouring Cotonou on the night of Monday, July 19.

Reacting to questions from journalists Ladoja said arresting Igboho and Kanu would not end the agitation for self-determination across the country.

He added that their agitations were a result of the government’s failure to tackle insecurity in the country, which he said had escalated."The Federal Government created Sunday Igboho in the context of Igangan massacre. People are agitating for what they believe in. They should be treated with care, and not as criminals".“Yoruba leaders, including the Alaafin of Oyo, have been complaining about the atrocities committed by Fulani herdsmen without response from the Federal Government.

“Order would come from above to release them and that is why people resorted to self-help.

“It is in this process that Igboho was created due to the killings that had been happening in Ibarapa axis and nobody has been arrested. Even if they were arrested, they will be released.

“Arrest of Igboho will not change anything if government failed to do the needful. Many Igbohos will be created. Just like Kanu has become an acclaimed leader, and to some people, Igboho has also become a leader.

“If caution is not taken by the Federal Government, the issue might boomerang, leading to many Igbohos and Kanus.”