Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, the Oluwo of Iwo has sent a strong message to Yoruba activity and agitators concerning the fight against Fulani Herdsmen.
The Oluwo of Iwo has urged Yoruba activists to channel their energy into investigating and solving the incessant rituals killing that is ongoing in the South-west. According to the monarch, these agitators should be more interested in investigating crimes and not attacking Fulani herdsmen.
Oba Akanbi stressed that no one can account for the number of lives that is lost to rituals per day. He question them as to when they would begin a protest against that. He also revealed that he’s a preacher of peace and a United Nigeria.
In his words;
“Only a few are reported while many were not caught. Yorubas should dissipate more energy in checkmating ritual killers and openly protest against them. Someone’s son and daughter are being killed by ritualists at the moment. There is a baby-making factory in the South. When are we protesting against that?”
Oba Akanbi claimed he is a preacher of peace and a united Nigeria, describing ethnicity as “ungodly and enemy of humanity”.
He said, “I stand on the path of peace and to me, that is the path of honor. Nigeria’s ethnic diversity is too fragile to be drumming ethnic war. I remain an unrepentant preacher of peace and a one, united Nigeria.
“Ethnicity is Ungodly. No faith preaches attack on all because of the crime committed by the few. Prosecute the criminals and probe crimes, not the tribe. Nigeria is a nation of ethnic diversities. Peace and unity are our strengths, not war. I never regret beating the drum of peace. We should rather hang on Fulanis to produce the bad eggs among them and not a total condemnation of the tribe. Even if it is the Igbo tribe that is being persecuted because of the bad few, I will stand to defend the good ones among them.
“Yoruba race is one of the best with rich cultural value. I love her people. I’ve never sold even a plot of my subjects’ land or anything from them since enthronement. Even, my salary is dedicated to the poor in my hometown. For what gain and purpose will I now mislead or sell them out? Never. What I preach is peace and truthfulness. The path to peace is to prosecute individual crimes and not their tribe. I stand on this and will keep repeating it.”
