Herdsmen invaded my property, Soyinka replies Police

Nobel Laureate, Prof. WWole Soyinka, has faulted the police claim that his property wasn’t invaded by cows and herdsmen who, on Tuesday, entered the Kemta Housing Estate, Abeokuta, Ogun State, where his house is located.

There were reports on Wednesday that some herdsmen and their cows invaded the elder statesman’s property and attacked him.

Soyinka said, “For those who truly seek details of the Ijegba incident, i hereby affirm that i was never physically attacked, neither did i attack any cows. The cows and herders did, however, attack my property and not for the first time. The police need to be very very careful and learn to be straightforward with public information.

“Failure to adhere to that obvious, basic form of conduct means that the public will lose total confidence in security agencies and constantly bypass them in times of unrest, no matter how trivial or deadly”.

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, warned criminal herdsmen on South-West to stay away from the region or face the wrath of the Oodua People’s Congress.

He was reacting to the encroachment on the Abeokuta residence of the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka by herdsmen and their cattle.