Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has lamented the invasion of his residence in the forest of Jegba Republic, off Kemta Housing Estate, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital by Fulani herdsmen and violated the serenity of the area. Soyinka described the invasion of the herdsmen as frequent and threatening. The Playwright, who was reported to haveRead More
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Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has lamented the invasion of his residence in the forest of Jegba Republic, off Kemta Housing Estate, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital by Fulani herdsmen and violated the serenity of the area.
Soyinka described the invasion of the herdsmen as frequent and threatening.
The Playwright, who was reported to have made this known in passing during a press conference at the Freedom Parks, Lagos, urged relevant authority to address the menace of herdsmen in the country.
The Nation gathered that the herdsmen who have been bringing their herds to his residence in Abeokuta to graze, invaded it last April 15 with the herds of cattle almost grazing as far as his lawns before they were chased out by Soyinka’s domestic staff.
One of the domestic staff who spoke with The Nation in anonymity, said it was the Professor that first observed it recently that herdsmen were coming to his compound when he noticed the foot marks of the herds on the shore side of the shallow stream that coursed through the compound ringed round by a forest of trees and shrubs.
“Baba was the one who first noticed that herdsmen were coming to this place to graze. He saw their foot prints and alerted us to.
“So, on April 15 the herdsmen came again with their cattle and the animals had moved very close to the building when we saw them and we quickly chased them away,” he said.
However, the Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told journalists that he had contacted the Kemta Divisional Police Headquarters, and the matter has not been reported there by anybody.
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