Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, has expressed what it called shock and total disgust at the decision of the police not to charge a Hausa cart pusher who allegedly triggered last month’s crisis in Shasha, Ibadan, Oyo State, with the murder of a cobbler, Mr Adeola Shakirudeen.
Instead, Afenifere noted, the police on Thursday charged seven persons, all Yoruba, to a magistrates’ court in Ibadan for the murder of the said Adeola Shakirudeen whose death led to the mayhem.
Afenifere, in a statement issued on Friday by its spokesman, Mr Yinka Odumakin, said that it was shocking that the police did not charge to court the Hausa cart pusher widely known to have beaten up the Yoruba man leading to his death.
The pan-Yoruba group said it was unfortunate that instead of the police to be neutral in the case by doing the right thing, it had taken sides by charging only Yoruba people to court in a matter that was globally known to be a clash between Hausa and Yoruba in Shasha in Ibadan.
It wondered how the police thought the world “would trust it when it charged Yoruba people for killing Yoruba persons and for burning Yoruba properties.
“Where is the Hausa cart pusher whose criminal behaviour precipitated the crisis? Even the Hausas themselves know that the man caused the crisis by assaulting the Yoruba cobbler who later died.
