It is no more a gainsaying and indisputable fact that the gruesome murder of Dr. Fatai Aborode embittered the people of Igangan and entire Ibarapa axis of Oyo State.
Aborode, a politician and business man was said to have been gruesomely murdered by suspected gunmen along his farm at Apodun Road, Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government of the state, having lodged complaint that the herders destroyed his 400 acres of cashew farm.
The senseless killing and dastardly act had no doubt thrown the members of family, community, employees and others into mourning and grief for killing one of the stars, influential persons and philanthropists that the whole community is proud of.
Late Aborode was said to have travelled abroad for greener pastures and returned peacefully with huge amount of money to empower his people, improve their lots for better standard of living.
The life of a practising muslim and Chief Executive Officer(CEO), Kunfayakun Green Treasures Limited was mercilessly murdered by the suspected Fulani Herdsmen, exactly 5:50 pm on a sad day, for raising his voice against the agents of destruction caught on vandalising his farm.
The people of Igangan and Ibarapa at large are still mourning the painful exit of their benefactor who had before his death employed hundreds of employees with something to fall back at the end of the month.
His death has created another vacuum which may not be easy to fill, considering the area of unemployment he had contributed his own quota, financial assistance to the aged ones, scholarships to brightly indigent students whose families are financially incapacitated and others which cannot be mentioned here.
In an exclusive interaction with one of their opinion leaders who pleaded to speak on a condition of anonymity said that the painful exit of Dr. Fatai Aborode had temporarily cut their hope short.
An anonymous opinion leader stressed that Aborode was murdered and gone forever when his promise and pledge to uplift the community began to come to fruition.
He said,” we are embittered!, we are grieved and sad over the death of a benefactor and philanthropist who had no symptoms of sickness but gruesomely murdered for complaining over his right being tramped upon”.
He however hailed the Human Right Activist and Philanthropist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho for his timely and precious intervention at a time the Fulani Herdsmen were killing, maiming and raping their girls with no mercy.
He lavished encomiums on him for coming out boldly and bravely to rescue them when governments at all levels could not make frantic and obvious efforts.
He said that there were many and countless killings of influential people of Ibarapaland, adding that those ones had gone to journey of no return but their killers must be apprehended and brought to book.
