A former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Rashidi Ladoja, has asked the Federal Government to grant amnesty to Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho and leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu because both men are a creation of the Federal Government.
Ladoja who spoke in an interview with journalists at his Ondo Street, Bodija, Ibadan residence, after he observed this year’s Eid-el-Kabir prayer at the University of Ibadan on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 said that both 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.
“Just like Kanu, to some people, Sunday Igboho has also become a leader, people are agitating for what they believe in. Yoruba leaders including the Alaafin of Oyo have been complaining about atrocities committed by suspected herdsmen and nothing has been done to it till now.
“Boko Haram members were arrested a year ago by the government and have been released to the Borno State Government.
“Sunday Igboho was created in the context of killings in Ibarapa axis of Oyo State. Nobody has been arrested for it and even if they were arrested, they were later released. That is why people resorted to self-help.”
“Igboho and Kanu are creation of the Federal Government. Why? Because whenever they arrested herdsmen, who were killing their people, Federal Government never acts.
“That was why those two people came up to defend their people.
“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.
He added that their agitations were a result of the government’s failure to tackle insecurity in the Country, which he said had escalated.
