Youths in Yewa North have issued a seven day notice to suspected killer herdsmen in Yewa North local government area to leave Ogun State.
Coming under the aegis of Yewa North Patriotic Forum of Ogun State, the youths gave the ultimatum on Friday following the alleged killing of five persons at Owode-Ketu, Egua.
They said the killer herdsmen should await their wrath if after the seven days they remained in the local government.
In a statement by their president, Sanni Omobolaji, the youths said the people of the area had been been living in fear and pain as a result of the killings which could only be traced to herdsmen.
The statement reads: “As responsible young people in Yewa-North, we have tried to ensure that our coexistence works, even when we are the legitimate owners of Yewa land but today’s gruesome killing of five of our people has shown that killer herdsmen can only live in their own world.
“We also use this medium to give a seven days ultimatum within which all killer herdsmen must vacate our local government or face the full anger of grieving people.
“If this ultimatum is taken with levity, we shall stop at nothing in ensuring that all unknown herdsmen are flushed out of our Local Government at the expiration of the seven days ultimatum.
“We are fully ready to take our destiny in our own hands and not wait till the criminal herdsmen successfully wipe off all our promising children and caring parents.
“Now is the best time to dissolve the marriage of inconvenience between our people in Yewa-North local government and the killer herdsmen as we cannot condone these criminals beyond seven days in our domain.”
