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Jan 24, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
FULANI SETTLEMENT IN YORUBALAND: A JUDICIAL PRECEDENT
The landmark case finally decided by the Supreme Court on 10th June, 1991. In that case, ‘Garuba Abioye and others (Plaintiffs) versus Sa’adu Yakubu and others (Defendants)’, @von_Bismack @CitizenPeper
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The dispute arose from a Fulani settlement called ‘Gaa Oke’ in Basanyin village in Ifelodun LGA of Kwara State that had by then been in existence for about 60 years.
Afolabi, graduated from the University and after serving, he had no job. But every Tuesdays and Thursdays he took a walk to Ojoo junction in Ibadan to a newspaper vendor stand where he reads free newspaper and write out vacancies that suits his purpose
He has been doing this for some months, until one faithful morning that he was arrested by Police few meters away from his house and taken to #SARS Station in Dugbe. He was arrested with some other boys that Police picked at random at various location between Iwo-Road, Ojoo...