The paramount ruler of Idjerhe Kingdom, Monday Obukowho Whiskey Udurhie 1, has called on the Federal Government to immediately convoke a national conference to wholly address the menace of insecurity.
King Whiskey, a journalist-turned-monarch, made the call at a press conference held at his palace in Idjerhe Kingdom, Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State, on Thursday.
He said President Bola Tinubu must swiftly combat insecurity before the menace consumes the entire nation.
“I have been having sleepless nights over the state of insecurity in our country. And I believe that it is time we looked at this issue wholly.
“Insecurity is assuming a dangerous dimension that royal fathers are being abducted and murdered.
“We have left the stage of bandits going to harassment of people in their farmlands to royal fathers driving in Federal Government highways and being abducted by self-styled bandits and murdered.
“The traditional stool across the world is sacred. It is time the government curb insecurity before the menace consumed the entire nation,” the monarch said.
On oil theft in the Niger Delta waterways, the Urhobo monarch urged Tinubu to monitor vessels on errands, secure the lives of private security personnel as well as ask oil multinational companies to relocate their headquarters to their operational bases.
“The insecurity in our waterways, especially vessels finding their ways into Nigeria waterways to steal crude oil is also worrisome.
“Nigerian economic is solely dependent on oil. If they are allowed to continue to steal our oil, a day might come that Nigeria will have nothing to sell and then go bankrupt. That will be pushing us to economic crises.
“This is the reason why FG hired private security outfits to monitor our waterways. And we’ve discovered that almost every month, one of the private security outfits is making huge success to the extent that I’m beginning to be afraid that how come with the high technology at the disposal of our national security agencies, unlicensed vessels can enter Nigerian waters and there’s not a way to detect them and no way to apprehend them,” he said.
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