The Yoruba elders lamented the recurring insecurity challenges in the South-West region and urged Tinubu to intervene.
A group of Yoruba elders, under the aegis of the Council of Yoruba Elders (CYE), has called on President Bola Tinubu to tackle the recent wave of insecurity in the South-West region of the country.
The elders also lamented the state of the economy amid ballooning inflation, which has made the price of food items and other essential commodities to skyrocket.
The group made the call at a media parley held at its headquarters in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, on Wednesday, November 22, 2023.
Addressing journalists, the group’s Secretary General, Dr Victor Taiwo, said the reoccurring insecurity in the region has become a worrisome trend.
He said reports at the group’s disposal linked the security menace to activities of suspected Fulani herdsmen, who he said have been relentless in their onslaught against farmers, ravaging farmers’ plantation fields.
The group also condemned the abduction and indiscriminate killings of the people, most especially in Ondo and Oyo States by bandits and other criminal groups.
It noted that though there was a period of reprieve from criminal activities shortly after Tinubu’s inauguration as President in May, there has been a resurgence in security challenges in the South-West region.
“You can imagine that widely published sad occurrence of the gruesome murder of a 62-year-old grandmother, Iyanuoluwa Adamolekun, of Similoluwa area, Agbaluku Arigidi Akoko in Ondo State. We also have in our record the kidnap incidents in Saki, Okaka and Ipapo, Oke-ogun, and Axis of Oyo State here. So, within a month, Fulani herders’
attacks on farmers in Afon, Ipokia, Ogun State, Iwere-Ile, Komu and Otu in Oyo State.”
“We also heard about the killing of Rev. David Musa of the ECWA in Obajana, Kogi State on October 14, 2023, and also the abduction of about 15 church members in Ondo State in September, all these challenges should be critically looked into by Mr President before it escalates into something else,” Taiwo said.
