End insecurity in South West now, Yoruba group tells Tinubu

By Innocent Anaba

Leaders of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Yoruba Self-Determination Movement, YSDM, person called connected President Bola Tinubu to instrumentality urgent and decisive enactment against the increasing question of insecurity successful Yorubaland, peculiarly the expanding cases of kidnapping, banditry, and attacks connected agrarian communities.

The telephone was made during a peaceful protestation held successful Lagos connected Friday, wherever members of the radical gathered to explicit their vexation and request national intervention.

Speaking astatine the protest, Opeoluwa Akinola, a person of the group, described the existent information concern arsenic “Unbearable,” lamenting the sidesplitting of guiltless radical and the fearfulness instilled successful Yorubaland farming communities.

He said: “Our radical are being killed by equipped Fulani groups. Farmers tin nary longer spell to their farms, and our women are being raped daily.

“This situation has lingered for excessively long, and we are saying it indispensable extremity now. As we speak, nary less than 24 communities person been affected.”

Akinola besides urged the Federal Government to reinstate Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, describing him arsenic a “son of the soil” who had shown a beardown committedness to defending the region.

According to the group, Igboho could play a captious relation successful coordinating community-led information efforts if fixed organization support.

A women person successful the Ifelodun Apapo Omo Yoruba group, Mrs. Funmilayo Oguniyi, acknowledged the efforts of information agencies but stressed that much needed to beryllium done to guarantee bid and extortion for families successful the region.

“Many kidnappings are happening astir Yorubaland borders. Our radical are abducted erstwhile they travel, and often, they ne'er return.

“We put truthful overmuch successful our children, sending them to school, lone for them to beryllium kidnapped and killed for nary conscionable cause,” she added.

Prophet Ologun Loluwa, a younker person and spiritual fig wrong the group, called the concern a nationalist emergency, urging leaders to emergence beyond authorities to tackle what helium termed a “national monster.

“Insecurity has grown into a monster. From North to South, East to West, we perceive regular reports of killings, kidnapping, banditry, and terrorism.

“This is not the practice our forebears near us. We garbage to judge a Nigeria wherever Yoruba sons and daughters unrecorded arsenic strangers successful their ain land,” helium added.

The radical vowed to proceed advocating and protesting until the authorities takes bold and strategical enactment to safeguard the lives and spot of citizens crossed the zone.

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