Afenifere condemns bandits’ attacks on Kogi, Kwara communities

By Laolu Elijah, Ibadan

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has warned that the latest onslaughts connected communities successful Kogi and Kwara States are attempts by territory expansionists, terrorists and immoderate radical who are disgruntled with the authorities to destabilise the state and make chiefdoms that would beryllium detrimental to the people.

Afenifere, successful a connection by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi maintained that the sacking of communities successful Kogi and Kwara States and successful immoderate different areas peculiarly successful the Middle Belt are grim reminders that coercion successful those places airs superior threats to the radical of the South West – and different parts of the country.

The enactment said the method of cognition of the terrorists successful Kwara went beyond those who are kidnapping for ransom oregon are conscionable funny successful uncovering fodders for their livestock.

According to the statement, “The benignant of weapons they use, the daring mode with which they onslaught and the strength of the harm they origin intelligibly bespeak that they person precise almighty radical sponsoring them some locally and internationally.

“However, those supporting, collaborating and sponsoring the evil doers request to retrieve that erstwhile the state is destabilized, they are not going to beryllium spared. What is happening successful Afghanistan presently and what has been happening since the unwarranted execution of Muammar Ghadaffi of Libya should service arsenic lessons.

“It is connected grounds that since Ghadaffi was ousted, Libya has not known peace. As for Afghanistan, it is arsenic though the authorities of that state wants to portion Afghan women and girls of their rights to those things that are basal to quality beingness – education, work, state of question and information successful nationalist life. From August 2021 erstwhile Taliban took implicit authorities successful that country, it has travel up with implicit 70 decrees violating the rights of girls and women — particularly their close to education, according to Ms Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).”

“Those encouraging terrorists successful Nigeria should retrieve that these killers bash not person respect for quality rights astatine each arsenic events successful assorted parts of the satellite and successful immoderate communities that terrorists occupied successful Nigeria attested to. Children and household members of terrorists’ sponsors tin not flight from the demolition that they are bringing upon the onshore either.

President Tinubu, successful his Independence Day broadcast, assured the federation that his authorities was taking steps to guarantee that insecurity was tamed. For this to beryllium achieved wrong the shortest time, Afenifere recommends that quality gathering strategy indispensable beryllium rejigged and strengthened.

“There tends to beryllium reasons to fishy that quality reports are not acted upon successful the involvement of the radical by those concerned. Allegations of complicity connected the portion of section radical and information unit should not beryllium dismissed. They should beryllium investigated and wherever grounds of specified are proven, culprits should beryllium dealt with accordingly.

“Kwara State Government’s regularisation of question for present is desirable. But it tin lone beryllium temporary. Thus, a much enduring and effectual strategy indispensable beryllium devised to forestall a re-occurrence of these disfigured incidents”.

Afenifere besides commiserated with the radical of Kogi and Niger states implicit the latest flood disasters and vessel mishaps and called connected the governments of the 2 states to instrumentality steps to forestall re-occurrence. The steps, Afenifere, stressed, “should see contiguous procurement and deployment of well-constructed boats with precocious capableness – the aforesaid mode immoderate states supply buses for their citizens”.

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