Odinkalu also criticised the call by some Yoruba leaders to attack Fulani herdsmen in reprisal for their alleged attack on Falae.
Falae’s farm was destroyed barely two weeks after the herdsmen kidnapped him and detained him in the bush until a ransom was paid, releasing him after four days.
Odinkalu lashed out at the former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Twitter on September 30, promising to lodge a complaint against him to the Nigerian police.
“Chief Falae’s abduction is a crime, but to make that basis of a campaign against a race as Femi Fani-Kayode did is hate speech. It is hate speech to leave individual responsibility and describe a race as tsetse fly, locust and leeches,” he tweeted.
Fani-Kayode replied: “It is those gutless cowards that seek to play down the murder of others that are guilty of hate crimes and not those that call a spade a spade.
“Those that say that we must remain silent when aliens invade our land, rape our women and kill our people shall fail. We will resist evil. I support the call by the Afenifere that all Fulani herdsmen should be banned from the South-West. We do not want these killers in our midst.”
A founder of the O’odua Peoples Congress, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, also described the destruction of Falae’s farm in Akure by cattle belonging to herdsmen as an embarrassment to the Yoruba race.
“We can no longer continue to preach patience when our guests are disrespecting our territorial integrity. As it is, the territorial integrity of the Yoruba race is at risk. This is the time for the Yoruba people, especially the youth, to stand up and defend their nation,” Fasehun, who spoke at the Yoruba Summit in Ibadan on Thursday, said.
He also added that it’s time to stop “depending on the Fulani herdsmen cattle when we have goats and chicken here”.
Odinkalu in an an interview said the perpetrators should be dealt with according to the law, and that the police had not identified the suspects as Fulani herdsmen. Details on The Punch.
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