Over recent months, Fulani herdsmen have become the greatest security risk in Nigeria following a string of incessant attacks on farming communities. Heavily armed, the herdsmen have been known to ransack villages, engage in armed robbery and also kidnap hostages for ransom.
Their activities have led to calls for the government to do something about the menace and some police commands have increased security to address the menace. Earlier this week, the Oyo State Police Command arrested two of them in Amidu Umoru and Umoru Sanda after they attacked a certain Kehinde Rafiu along the Igangan/Iganna Road in Iwere Ile in Oke-Ogun area of the state.
They had apparently beaten him with a shepherd club and machete before robbing him of his motorcycle. Oyo State police commissioner Leye Oyebade, said the victim later died in a hospital because of the seriousness of his injuries.
Umoru, 20, said his accomplice, Sanda, first attacked the deceased with machete before using the club to beat him to a state of coma because he put up a fight with them. Asked for the motive behind the robbery when he was already engaged as a herdsman, Umoru said he had no clear understand of why he took to the crime and that it was his destiny to rob.
He added: “I don’t know why I did it as I cannot even ride a motorcycle. I am a herdsman and this is my first time of being arrested or robbing people but whatever Allah desires must come to past, so I think it is my destiny to rob.
“Sanda cut the motorcycle owner with his cutlass and I used the club to beat him. I normally used the club to shepherd cattle but after leaving him for dead, we took his motorcycle away to sell but were later arrested by members of the Odua Peoples’ Congress who handed us over to the police.”
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