About four people were feared dead on
Friday following a clash between Yoruba indigenes and Fulani people
living at Alapa Village along Iseyin Road, Ilorin-East Local Government
Area of Kwara State.
Trouble purportedly started on Monday
when a Yoruba man, whose name is.....
yet to be identified, was allegedly
attacked and killed by yet-to-be-identified Fulani cattle rearers on a
farmland.
The victim was said to have died on the spot.
Our correspondent gathered on Friday,
that when the victim’s kinsmen heard about the death of their townsman,
they were said to have mobilised and attacked some Fulani men that they
found.
The revenge was said to have lasted from
Tuesday to Thursday, leading to the burning of some huts belonging to
the Fulanis in the bush.
The Fulani people were said to have consequently deserted their houses in the bush for fear of further reprisal.
A source told our correspondent that
three Fulani corpses had been evacuated from the bush, while the remains
of the Yoruba man had also been recovered by the police.
He added that many huts belonging to the Fulanis in the bush had been razed before the police intervened.
The Kwara State Commissioner of Police,
Mr. Agboola Oshodi-Glover, in a telephone interview with our
correspondent on Friday, declined to state the number of casualties.
He, however, confirmed the clash and
said that the police had restored peace in the area, as people had
returned to their businesses.
“I am yet to be properly briefed on the
casualty rate, so I cannot name a figure yet. Everything is now under
control. There was something like clash there,” Oshodi-Glover said.
-Punch
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