The following warnings occurred: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Warning [2] Undefined array key "avatartype" - Line: 783 - File: global.php PHP 8.0.30 (Linux)
|
Police denies reports of herdsmen attacking Wole Soyinka's house in Abeokuta - Printable Version +- Forums (http://contripeople.com) +-- Forum: General Discussion (http://contripeople.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=5) +--- Forum: General Discussion (http://contripeople.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=60) +--- Thread: Police denies reports of herdsmen attacking Wole Soyinka's house in Abeokuta (/showthread.php?tid=44173) |
Police denies reports of herdsmen attacking Wole Soyinka's house in Abeokuta - Edoman - 02-10-2021 Police denies reports of herdsmen attacking Wole Soyinka's house in Abeokuta The Ogun state police command has denied a viral video claiming some Fulani herdsmen attacked the house of Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, in Abeokuta on Tuesday, February 9. A statement released by the spokesperson of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeymi, states that on Tuesday, one Kazeem Sorinola who is an indigene of ijeun Abeokuta who is into cattle business, was said to have been informed by a young Fulani man Awalu Muhammad who is taking care of the cattle that one of the cows had got missing. Quote:''While the Fulani man was searching for the stray cow around kemta estate where the Prof Wole soyinka's house is located, the Prof. himself who was going out then saw the Fulani man with some of the cows and he came down to ask where the man was heading to with the cows. He there and then asked the Fulani man to move the cattle away from the vicinity. The command warns fake news peddlers to desist from it as they may be made to feel the weight of the law. Quote:''It is an offence for anybody to originate or help in circulating fake news, the command will therefore, henceforth be tracing and fishing out those deliberately dishing out fake information to members of the public especially the one that cause panic in the mind of innocent people.''Oyeyemi said |