Olu Falae’s Farm In Ondo State Set Ablaze Completely By Suspected Herdsmen Terrorists
The Oasis Reporters
January 21, 2018
“Fulani terrorists have just set Chief Olu Falae’s entire farm in Ondo state on fire. The place is ablaze right now”, according to a release sent to some media houses by Femi Fani-Kayode, an opposition PDP chieftain who was one time Aviation minister.
His press release equally corroborated another one by Lere Olayinka, Special Adviser (New Media) to Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose.
According to Femi Fani-Kayode, ”Baba Falae is one of the most respected and reverred leaders of Afenifere and the Yoruba nation. Only two years ago the same Fulani terrorists kidnapped him and almost killed him.
I ask Buhari and Miyetti Allah, does he deserve this? Is this fair? ”
He further asked rhetorically, “how many more people have to die and how many more farms have to be destroyed before you will call these barbarians to order and bring them to book?”
Lere Olayinka called Chief Olu Falae, a” repected Yoruba leader”, whose farm has just been burnt down by Fulani herdsmen.
“The entire farmland was destroyed”, he went on, and asked; “and some BASTARD Yorubas will still defend Buhari, isn’t it” ?
In an exasperative tone reminding the Yoruba people that they voted the wrong candidate in 2015 despite ‘their warning’, Lere Olayinka lapsed into Yoruba traditional idiomatic expressions, saying,
“Oodua Atewonro, Oranmiyan Akinorun, Aare Ona Kakanfo isaaju… Koriko dide, eruwa dide… Ogun Oba ma nto lo?”
One of The Oasis Reporters contributors from the south west of Nigeria who speaks the Yoruba language called it “A poetic traditional chant” that would be almost impossible to transliterate into English for the benefit of International readers of this media as well as non Yoruba speaking Nigerians.
Another contributor simply called it a “Yoruba “literary genre” that cannot be translated. Yet, he made it sound like a call to vigilance and action by the Yoruba to thwart any invasion of their land by Fulani herdsmen.
The earlier kidnap of Chief Olu Falae, one time Secretary to the federal government of Nigeria in the Mid eighties who may be aged almost 80 or above now, cost millions of Naira in ransom money before the herdsmen terrorists holding him could agree to release him.
Ondo folks and other sympathetic Nigerians are wondering how the aged chief would be able to repay the huge bank loans he took to set up the farm that has now been ruined.
