Reliable report reaching Heritagenewsng has confirmed that at last members of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) Sunday morning arrested one Iskilu Wakili, a notorious Fulani warlord who killed and maimed with daring effrontery and crude savagery.
Aare Gani Adams in an interview with newsmen had assured that his OPC group will rescue the Ibarapa people by nabbing Wakili “No, I wouldn’t name them. They are operating differently and they are being coordinated by different sponsors, godfathers and patrons. So, we are still working and closing in on Wakili, who is the main terrorist in Ibarapa. We are closing in on him.”
On the whereabouts of the notorious bandit leader, Adams also said” He is still in the forest. If you know the forest in Ibarapa, from the farm of people of Ibarapa, there is still some thick forest stressing from like a distance between here (Otedola) to Iyana- Ipaja that we have the villages of some Fulani that harboured criminals within the villages; more than 10 to 15 communities are living there.
But we have genuine Fulani living there but they harbour the criminals and when you watch the video of Igboora, you will see that our boys, their oga did not arrest innocent people. They only picked criminals and handed them over to the Civil Defence”.
Wakili became the most feared bandit in Ibarapa land, even after the eviction of the Seriki Fulani, Abdulkadri Saliu, from Igangan also in Ibarapaland.
However his reign of terror came to a juddering end Sunday morning when a detachment of Iba Gani Adams’ OPC personnel swooped into the community to arrest Wakili, who had long boasted he was untouchable.
Unconfirmed reports said he has since been handed over to the police.
Wakili established no cross-zone on farms to send warnings to the people of the town that he cannot be evicted, which his men enforced by shooting at farmers who trespassed the no cross-zone.
Wakili worked with dozens of other bandits who are his disciples and together, they seized hectares of farmlands at Ayete, raped the women in the rustic town, and kidnapped their rich men for ransom.
The man was so audacious that renamed the overrun settlements to bear his name. People now call the conquered places ‘Iga Wakili’.