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  • Buhari calls Pa Fasoranti over daughter's death

    President Muhammadu Buhari has made a phone call to Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, whose daughter, Mrs Funke Olakunri, was killed by an armed gang on Kajola-Ore road, Ondo State Friday.
    The President condoled with the grieving nonagenarian, wishing him the comfort of God, and fortitude to bear the great loss. He also assured that security agencies would spare no effort to apprehend the culprits, and bring them to justice.
    Pa Fasoranti thanked the President for identifying with him and his family at their time of travail, praying that God will restore peace and amity to the country.
    On Friday, President Buhari sent a condolence message to Fasoranti.
    The President prayed that God will comfort Pa Fasoranti, and give him the fortitude to bear the grievous loss.
    He also directed security agencies to swing into action, and bring the hoodlums to justice in the shortest possible time.

  • Fasoranti's daughter: You all have failed us, Adebanjo slams South West Governors

    Elder statesman, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, on Saturday, blamed Southwest governors for the security challenge in the zone and said they have failed in defending the people.
    “You governors, you are supposed to defend us but for one reason or the other, you fail in that task. Our people were being kidnapped, our people are being raped, our people are being killed yet you keep quiet,” an emotional Adebanjo said during a condolence visit to Chief Reuben Fasoranti whose daughter, Mrs. Funmi Olakinrin, 58, was shot dead on Friday by gunmen at Ore, Ondo State.
    But Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State said the occasion did not call for political statements or coloration.
    Adebanjo broke down in tears as he spoke at the Fasorantis’.
    Speaking to reporters thereafter, Makinde said: “What happened is something very serious and if it had happened to somebody ordinary we would never hear anything.
    Governors from the South West held a security summit and we are serious about it and we will take this seriously and what has happened will make us to double up our effort.
    “This is supposed to be a federation with federal system and both the state and the federal government.
    “We will continue to fight for true federalism and for the opportunity to be able to protect our people because it is so fundamental that we have to do it.
    “This is the time to come together in unity to fight for our people, it is not the time to fight or look at ourselves as belonging to different ideological set up or different political parties.
    “It is the time to bring the agenda of Yoruba land forward and fight it collectively. It is sad that something like this has to happen to nudge us to this direction. I want to seek everybody support and we will provide the leadership and we are not going to turn our back to the people.”

  • Fasoranti's daughter's killing baseless, mindless, unacceptable – Yoruba Unity Forum

    The Yoruba Unity Forum (YUF) Saturday expressed shock about the killing of Pa Fasoranti’s daughter Mrs Funke Olakunrin.
    It described the killing by suspected herdsmen as mindless and unacceptable.
    The forum, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Lanre Ogundipe, blamed the Federal Government for the death, saying it was due to the alleged ineptitude of the security agencies.
    The statement read: “ The Yoruba Unity Forum received with shock, sadness and trepidation, the news of the unfortunate killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Yoruba statesman and Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, by suspected herdsmen at Ore junction on her way from Akure
    “While YUF commiserates with the reverred Yoruba elder, his family, both nuclear and extended, and indeed all of Yorubaland on this unfortunate, yet preventable death, and sincerely pray that the gentle soul of Mrs. Olakunrin finds peace with her maker, we’re constrained to lay the entire blame of her sad demise on the doorstep of President Muhammadu Buhari.
    “We know for a fact that the Buhari government’s kid-gloves treatment of the murderous excesses of these herdsmen is enough filip for their continued killing of innocent souls, especially in places opposed to their archaic, backward, and crude method of pastoralism, hence, we see Mrs. Olakunrin’s murder, as another serie, in that devilish plot of theirs.
    “Again, we’re alarmed by the claim that Mrs. Olakunrin’s killing was a failed armed robbery attack, for we’re yet to see where armed robbers, whose primary motive is to dispossess victims of their belongings, will kidnap or riddle the same victim’s car with bullets. YUF finds this claim spineless, and absolutely ill thought;
    “YUF feels that, and rightly so too, that President Buhari’s continued emotional attachment to his folks; the Fulanis, to the detriment of the rest of the country, is already the fuel for the eventual arson of the whole country, if unchecked…
    “ YUF reiterates her call for the total restructuring of the country, as that in our well informed opinion, is the panacea to the myriads of problems confronting a disjointed and faulty union like Nigeria’s. Failure to adhere restructuring principles – ‘Without immediate restructuring along the lines of the 2014 National Conference Resolutions, the continued existence of Nigeria as one country is very much open to doubt.”

  • Fasoranti's daughter: IGP orders overhaul of security structure in SW, SE, SS; insists killers will be brought to book

    Fasoranti's daughter: IGP orders overhaul of security structure in SW, SE, SS; insists killers will be brought to book

    From Jonas Ike, Abuja
    The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu has assured the nation that the killers of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of the leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organization, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasorantin will certainly be found and made to face the full weight of the Law.
    The IGP notes that the Ondo State Police Command, backed by Special Forces and seasoned investigators from the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) and the Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU) deployed from the Force Headquarters, Abuja, on his directives, have already commenced a massive manhunt for the killers with a view to tracking, arresting and bringing them to justice.
    While condemning the heinous and barbaric crime, the IGP, as part of measures to prevent a future occurrence of such incidence, has ordered the total overhaul of security architecture on the highways straddling the Southern part of the country.
    In this vein, the Commissioners of Police in the affected States were ordered by the IGP to ensure adequate security arrangement in their areas of jurisdiction (AOR). He equally assures the nation that the Force Headquarters has perfected plans to replicate the special security arrangement powered by “Operation Puff Adder”currently ongoing in Kaduna- Abuja expressway in key highways in the Southern part of the country.
    The IGP further reiterates the fact that the Force will not rest on its oars until sanity is restored in every nook and cranny of the country. He therefore calls for calm and support from all Nigerians, especially residents of Ondo State, in aid of the current investigation.

  • Fasoranti's daughter: Yoruba will react if pushed to the wall, Gani Adams warns

    Fasoranti's daughter: Yoruba will react if pushed to the wall, Gani Adams warns

    Gani Adams, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland and leader of Oodua Peoples Congress said Yoruba will react to the spate of killings in the South West when pushed to the wall.
    He was reacting to the killing on Friday of Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere. Adams condoled with Pa Fasoranti and hoped that justice will be done.
    “We are like the proverbial goat that it being chased”, Adams said in a statement circulated by his media assistant, Kehinde Aderemi.
    “When it gets to the wall, it will certainly react. We are at that stage now,” Adams said.
    He described Olakunrin’s killing by suspected herdsmen in Ondo State as one too many by Fulani who are invading the South West in their numbers and perpetrating atrocities.
    “We only want the whole world to know what has been done and being done to our people.
    “They should be aware of the actions that preceded our reaction when it eventually comes.
    “We are not bereft of ideas of how to stop this criminality on our land. It is just so that we should not be blamed when the reaction comes”, he added.
    Adams said the Yoruba leaders in the region have been meeting in the last two months over the security threat to the people, calling on Governors of to ensure the conclusion of the meetings.

  • Nigeria diminished with killing of Fasoranti’s daughter – Obasanjo

    Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday declared the country has been diminished by the killing of Mrs Funke Olakunri on Friday.
    Mrs. Olakunri is the daughter of elder statesman leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti.
    Obasanjo said the killing by suspected herdsmen was a worrisome development in the polity, especially, at a time when all well-meaning Nigerians are preaching tolerance and political accommodation.
    In a condolence letter to Pa Fasoranti, which was made available to The Nation through his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo tasked the security agents to fish out those responsible for the heinous crime.
    Obasanjo: “This is a worrisome development in our polity, especially, at a time when all well-meaning Nigerians are preaching tolerance and political accommodation in national politics.
    “I must say Nigeria as a whole is diminished by the manner of Funke’s death.
    “We deplore this dastardly act and seize this opportunity to call on governments at all levels to leave no stone unturned in ensuring that our security agents vigorously pursue and find the perpetrators of such heinous crime and make them face the full weight of the law.
    “We must, together, find solution to all acts of insecurity in the country, particularly acts of banditry, kidnapping, robbery and killing by the suspected Fulani herdsmen.
    The former President, noted that his condolence letter would be delivered by Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Otunba Oluwole Fasawe to the bereaved Fasoranti in Akure, the Ondo state capital, because of his engagement in Morocco.
    “As you mourn the tragic loss of our very dear Funke, please be assured of the sympathy and profound sorrow of many others like me who are saddened by the manner of her demise, especially as she still had a lot to contribute to the nation and her family to which she was highly devoted.
    “Let me also implore you to be strong for the entire family. I pray that God Himself will comfort you and sustain the whole family in this hour of painful trial. And may the soul of the dear departed rest in perfect peace.
    “Because I have to be in Morocco, I am sending a delegation of Otunba Oluwole Fasawe and Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola with this letter and to personally deliver my condolence,” he concluded.

  • Ondo deputy governor, SSG, visit Pa Fasoranti over daughter's death

    The Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi, on Friday night led a government delegation to the residence of the leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, in Akure.
    The delegation was on a condolence visit to the elder statesman whose daughter was killed by gunmen at Ore junction in Ondo State.
    Ajayi was accompanied by the Secretary to the State Government, Ifedayo Abegunde, and the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Olugbenga Ale.
    The deputy governor, while commisserating with the Afenifere leader, said the state government received the news of the death with shock.
    While vowing that the perpetrators of the evil act would be brought to book, Ajayi disclosed that Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, had cut short his trip outside the state to return home.
    The 58-year-old victim was heading to Ore Junction from Akure when she and others were attacked.
    The deceased was the second child of the 94-year-old Fasoranti who also lost a daughter some years ago.

  • Buhari condoles Fasoranti over daughter’s death

    President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the leader of Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, on the death of his daughter, Mrs Funke Olakunrin.
    The deceased was reportedly shot on Friday on the Kajola-Ore road in Ondo State by those the police described as armed robbers.
    In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Friday night, the president prayed that God would comfort Fasoranti and give him the fortitude to bear the grievous loss.
    He also directed security agencies to swing into action and bring the hoodlums to justice in the shortest possible time.

  • How Olakunrin, Fasoranti’s daughter was killed in broad daylight in Ore – Police

    The police in Ondo State have given details of how suspected herdsmen in a kidnap attempt, shot and killed Funke Olakunrin, the second daughter of Afenifere leader, Reuben Fasoranti.
    Police spokesman, Femi Joseph, said the incident occurred between Kajola and Ore along Ondo-Ore road on Friday.
    Recall that Afenifere’s spokesperson, Yinka Odumakin, had earlier insinuated on Friday evening that “Mrs Funke Olakunrin, based on accounts of all eyewitnesses, was killed by Fulani herdsmen who emerged from the bush, shot her and killed her in the process.”
    Odumakin said the late Olakunrin was travelling from Akure to Ore when her vehicle was attacked alongside others.
    However, the police spokesperson Joseph confirmed the attack and the death of Olakunrin said he was not aware the deceased was related to the Afenifere Chairman.
    “It happened at a spot between Kajola and Ore, where some hoodlums numbering about 15, attacked two vehicles, 1 Toyota Land Cruiser and 1 Camry,” Joseph on Friday night.
    “The the Land Cruiser was carrying five passengers, including the deceased, which we later identified as one Funke Olakunrin.
    “They shot the woman, we rushed her to the hospital, but we lost her.
    “Other four occupants that were abducted, we have rescued them.
    “Inside the Camry too, we had three occupants, they were also abducted, but we have rescued them. We have rescued a total of seven persons taken during the attack.
    “There is still one person left that we are still looking for, and we are working frantically to ensure that the hoodlums are brought to justice and ensure any other hostage were rescued,” he said.

    The police spokesman said he would not confirm if the attackers were Fulani herdsmen, noting that until an arrest was made, it would be difficult to identify the persons and where they came from.
    “No, you can’t shave the head of a man in his absence,” Joseph said. “You have to wait for us to arrest them. Somebody you have not arrested, it is difficult for you to establish his ethnicity.”
    He said crime does not have colour, ethnicity or religion, adding that “crime is a crime and a criminal is a criminal.”
    Afenifere is at the forefront of the campaign against the building of cattle settlement for herdsmen earlier promoted by the federal government.
    The group had earlier raised the alarm over the rising wave of violent activities of herdsmen in the south west region, calling on the governors and security agencies to rise up to the situation to save the nation from an impending armed conflict.
    The governors of the south west had also responded to an alarm by summoning a security summit where they had resolved to tackle the problems of herdsmen and kidnapping.

  • BREAKING: Suspected herdsmen kill Afenifere chairman's daughter, abduct others

    Daughter of the leader of the Pan Yoruba socio-cultural organization, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs Funke Olakunrin was on Friday reportedly shot dead by suspected kidnappers in Ore, headquarters of Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State.
    Sources said the deceased was coming from the Lagos end of the Benin/Ore road when her car was attacked by the kidnappers suspected to be Fulani herdsmen.
    The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the state Police command, Femi Joseph confirmed the incident.
    He said the suspects were kidnappers who also engaged in armed robbery.
    The incident, he said happened between Kajola and Ore, adding that Mrs Olakunrin was the only one killed in the incident.
    He said three vehicles including a luxurious bus belonging to the Young Shall Grow Motors were attacked by the kidnappers, adding that the passengers in the luxurious bus were travelling from Imo State to Lagos.
    However, he said the Police have rescued three of the victims, adding that one Gerald Igboroka was yet to be found by the police.
    Joseph said “information available to us is that suspected kidnappers who were 16 in number ambushed the three vehicles at Kajola.
    “The three vehicles were said to be going to Lagos and they were all attacked,” he added.
    The PPRO who said the Police were on the trail of the kidnappers, assured that the victims would be rescued in no distant time.
    He said none of the suspected kidnappers has been arrested, but efforts are on top gear to ensure their arrest, saying that the police have already condoned the location.