On Thursday, Yoruba farmers led by the ‘The Agbekoya Farmers Society’ stormed Ibadan, the capital of Oyo state, demanding Sunday Adeyemo, a youth leader better known as Sunday Igboho, be released ‘unconditionally.’
Sunday Igboho, who is now being held in detention in Cotonou, Benin Republic, was accused with a number of crimes, including alleged arms smuggling.
The group marched to the palace of Saliu Adetunji, the Oba of Ibadan, after holding a rally on Thursday.
The group maintained Igboho is only an activist and “not a criminal” in a statement made after the protest and signed by Olatunji Bandele, the society’s national publicity secretary.
They also requested that the federal government restrict the actions of herders “armed with AK-47s.”
The organization also called for the formation of a combined task force to combat banditry in the southwest.
“We ask for the establishment of a joint task force, comprising soldiers, policemen, state security service and self-determination groups like Agbekoya, OPC, hunters, vigilante to combat banditry, ritual killings and kidnapping in the south-west,” the statement reads.
The group also asked the government to work towards ““agricultural revolution and adequate protection of farmers on their farmland, repair and maintenance of federal and rural roads, among other things”.
