Herdsman Kills His Landlord In Oyo State

A Fulani herdsman at the end of the week executed his own landlord also a farmer, Musliu Aliu at Igbeti in the Oke-Ogun range of Oyo State, prompting to an increased strain between the indigenes and the herders in the territory.

A lady was likewise cut in the stomach and had been hospitalized, while around 19 houses were said to have been demolished in the repercussions of the occurrence.

Executive of Igbeti people group, Alhaji Alawode Jimoh Fasina, said the indigenes of the town had cautioned the perished not to oblige the herder who has many dairy animals in the zone.

In any case, in his reaction to the charge of murder, pioneer of Fulani herders in the range, Alhaji Saliu Kadiri who is likewise the National Chairman, Jamu Nati Fulbe Association of Nigeria, asserted that the dead farmer poisoned his products which the cows ate and that prompted to its death.

“The herdsman reported the case and the following day, the man was found dead. He was not stabbed and there were no stab wounds on him. His tubers of yam were also burnt. Only my God knows who killed him,” he said.