Still on the crisis in Ile-Ife

He who is not ready for war should not beat the war drums. The clash between Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba in Ile-Ife, the source of the Yoruba, is bad. But what followed is barbaric.

It is pretty difficult to imagine a Yoruba man slapping a Hausa woman in any part of northern Nigeria. In fact, any Yoruba man who has ever visited the core Hausa cities would attest to it that no electrician dare climb an electric pole to repair cables without the prior notice to the Emir(s). This is because it is seen as an abomination.

Women are usually kept indoors at their back yards. Such is the way women are treated in that part of the country.

It is also a bastard Yoruba man that would see his wife flogged in the market by anybody; he would rather prefer to die, no matter how cantankerous the woman is at home.

It will be recalled that shortly after the presidential election of 2015, herdsmen became troublesome, terrorising innocent farmers, especially in the South-West, to the extent that they began to maim and kill harmless farmers on their farm.

When they were caught and handed over to the law enforcement agents, they (the accused) were promptly released with no condition attached. These pugnacious herdsmen have not stopped. They claim that they were “Born to rule”.

The recent arrest of many Yoruba people in Ile-Ife over the clash in the town gives credence to the above allegation.

It is however sad that “The kingmaker’s blood is being used as the red carpet to the throne.” The herdsmen must be called to order.   The consequence is better imagined than experienced.

It has been said that only the Yoruba are being daily arrested in Ile-Ife over the recent clash. The arrested Yoruba people are taken to various detention camps across the country.

No single Hausa/Fulani man has been arrested.

When the septuagenarian Chief Olu Falae, was kidnapped in his farm, swift action was not meted out to the culprits. This neocolonialism is coming into the house of our revered Oduduwa; it is insulting to the spirit of our progenitor. So, the Yoruba should ponder.

The death that kills one’s contemporaries speaks to one in proverbial language. All those arrested should be released immediately. True peace is not merely the absence of tension it is the presence of justice.

Again, this action, among others, paints a gloomy future for the ruling party at the centre. The praise singers, bootlickers and the hangers-on would not be able to perform the magic in 2019.

• Adelani Olawuyi Odooba, Ogbomoso.