One of the daughters of popular Fuji musician, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal known as Dami, has taken to her Snapchat account to criticise people donating money to Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho.
On Wednesday,
Igboho's supporters set up a Gofundme page for the purpose of raising £100,000
(N51.8m) for him to buy buses to help in the movement of his men in a bid to
rid the Yoruba land of killer herdsmen.
The
fundraiser, which was initiated by Maureen Badejo, a blogger and activist based
in the United Kingdom, has so far garnered £14, 824 (7.6m) with over 446
donations made.
But the
singer’s daughter who is a lawyer urged Nigerians to desist from raising money
for Igboho.
According to
her, Igboho was an active participant in the last Ife-Modakeke crisis, where
lots of lives were lost.
The lawyer
wrote, “Anybody donating money from any part of the world in order to set
Nigeria on fire will never know peace. It took us a lot to get here, please
don’t take us back, don’t kill my dreams because of your own ignorance. Every
media establishment that repeatedly calls Sunday Igboho a ‘Yoruba activist’ is
playing its part to cause ethnic crises in the South-West in order to extract
political value from it. Every one of them.
“I am 100 per
cent Yoruba but I will never support anyone that wants to cause war, the Igbo
man is my brother, the Hausa man is my brother too. As a student of history, I
know the cost of the last Ife-Modakeke crisis, where this Sunday Igboho was
said to be an active participant. All those interviewing him and amplifying the
war he is calling for should be subjects of interest to the DSS (Department of
State Services) – if the DSS still knows its duties. In my life, I do not
support nonsense, go and read section 43 of the 1999 constitution. One Nigeria,
the whole country belongs to all of us.”
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