THE pan-Yoruba sociopolitical group, Afenifere, on Tuesday, called on the Federal Government to urgently put a halt to various acts of terrorism, kidnapping, herders/farmers clashes and the like currently ravaging the country.
The group also reiterated its position that restructuring remained the panacea for the problems bedevilling the country now, even as it insisted that the exercise should be carried out before the 2023 general election.
Afenifere made the call in a communiqué issued at the end of a meeting held at the house of its acting leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, in IjebuOde, Ogun State. It said the step the Federal Government needed to take to address security challenges was to allow states and local governments have their police.
“In view of the fact that Nigeria nation is fast moving into the precipice, there is the need by the Federal Government to urgently put a halt to various acts of terrorism, kidnapping, herders/farmers clashes and the like. This, government can do, by immediately allowing states to have their own police. In fact, security apparatus should be democratised down to the local level,” it said.
In the eight-point communiqué issued at the end of the meeting which was presided over by Chief Adebanjo and attended by the deputy leader, Oba Oladipo Olaitan; Secretary General, Chief Sola Ebiseni; Chief Supo Sonibare, Senator Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele, Dr Amos Akingba, among others, it noted with concern the security problems, which it said was accentuated by the influx of people even from outside Nigeria, calling on the Federal Government and security agencies “to put a halt to the unbridled influx of people with questionable intention.”
The socio-political group, while observing that some of these elements were disguising as okada riders, further observed that terrorism and related vices, including kidnapping, are now so worrisome in places like Yewa in Ogun State and Oke Ogun in Oyo State, forcing the affected people in the area to relocate to Benin Republic and other West African countries.
It, therefore, urged that urgent actions must be taken to guarantee the security of these people.
“Afenifere also took particular note of the incessant security breaches in our border towns in Kogi, Kwara, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo states. We hereby strongly call for the protection of the people in these areas,” the group said.
On anti-open grazing law, Afenifere expressed its support for the southern governors in their resolution to have the law in place, just as it commended them for the establishment of security networks like Amotekun.
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