A Yoruba socio-cultural group, the Oodu’a Peoples’ Congress, OPC, has warned herdsmen against continuous attacks on innocent people and communities, stressing that it would not tolerate killing of farmers in the Southwest.
Rising from a general meeting held in Gbagada, Lagos State yesterday, the OPC members cautioned the Federal Government against initiating the controversial grazing bill. Over 1,000 members of the group across states are believed to have attended the meeting.
While describing the controversial grazing bill as an “insult” to the people, the group vowed to resist the move to promulgate a law that would give privilege to a section of the country.
Speaking with newsmen after the meeting, the OPC National Publicity Secretary, Shina Akinpelu, said: “It is an insult to collective psyche of Nigerians to hear that a bill is being considered to allow or create grazing zones for the herdsmen. The OPC and the whole Yoruba nation reject such proposition and will resist it with all that we have.”
The OPC members who called on Otunba Gani Adams to stop parading himself as leader of the group condemned his style of leadership, accusing him of trading off the group for personal gains.
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