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Says leadership silence, inactions, others fuelling killings

The Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) has berated the Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, for accusing South-West governors and leaders as responsible for ethnic crisis and killings in the region.

But reacting to Lawan’s accusation in a telephone chat with The Guardian, yesterday, the Secretary of YCE, Dr. Kunle Olajide, described his claim as untrue.

He said that on the contrary, it was the silence of the national leadership, including the President of the Senate, fuelling ethnic crisis.

“It is totally untrue. Ethnic crisis is being amplified by the relative silence of even the National Assembly and the Senate President himself and also the Presidency.

“What appears to be the insensitivity of the Federal Government to our plight that has been on now in the last four years in the South-West, that our people are being raped, slaughtered and our farms plundered and not a word or positive action from the Federal Government, including the Senate President, is the cause of the crisis.

“What we hear is platitudes or rhetoric from ministers or aides of the President. So, they are the one responsible for the brazen attitude of the criminals in the forests as none of them has been prosecuted. In fact, the negotiation for payment of ransom some people are advocating encourages abductions to make more money.

“The money they make, they use to buy more arms to keep terrorising people. So, it is the national leadership, including the Senate President himself and the highest authority in the land, that are fuelling the crisis by silence and gross insensitivity,” he said.

Olajide, therefore, advocated the restructuring of the country to a true federation that would give the state governors power to enforce security in their states

“We must restructure this country,” he further said.

dazzlingd:
No need for peace talk, these fulani are humans with blood.....make them feel unsafe, terrorize them too, bleed them and mutilate then after death

Burruchaga71:
. Guy, South East Governors are worst. I feel like stoneing them to death.. I swear

backnbeta:
Our governors are licking more than Fulani ass, they have started licking their cows' asses, feasting on cow dung's and bathing with their urine! I'm ashamed of our governors and the so-called leaders! Their SE counterparts are ass licking with a bit of dignity at least

Kay17:
Isn't it likely that bandits operating in Northwest and in Niger State are the same set of people terrorising the Southwest? If bandits afflict the North so easy, why don't you think they can afflict the South?

Don't you think the North and South are facing the same problem?

just2endowed:
The south is too divided aswear. We are too proud and selfish to the core. Ready to scam and full of dubious means. We never agree in anything. That's why the north will always be ahead of us in unity.

Kingstanding:
. Because our governors and politicians can trade the destiny of their children with money and power. We have no reliable, responsible and sane leaders in southern Nigeria most especially amongst Yoruba race. Only Sunday Igboho I can still counts as a bonafide son of Oduduwa amongst our political and traditional rulers. The rest are slave to Fulanis.

One of the ways we can support cattle breeding is to change the ways cattle breeders are adopting now. So, there will be designated grazing areas, as well as feed mills. With these, there is no need to trek with herds from far.

Optional09:
Nobody elected them, if they were elected they would have valued the people who elected them at least, they are not answerable to us but the one who selected them, so we the citizens are the stupid one allowing unelected person to make life and death decisions for us

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has said that the Sarkin Fulani in Yewa North speaks Yoruba better than he does, stressing that herdsmen are not criminals.

Gov Abiodun said this while addressing newsmen at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday.

DAILY POST reports that the governor was at the Presidential Villa to present a report on the recent headsmen crisis in Ogun State to President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to Abiodun, the killings in Ogun were not by Fulani herdsmen, but by bandits, whom he said were cattle rustlers.

He said media houses were not helping matters, wondering why someone would be in a hurry to spread fake news.

“The Fulanis have lived with us in Ogun State for hundreds of years peacefully.

“The Sarkin Fulani from that particular corridor speaks Yoruba better than I do.

“One of the problems we have realised is ethnic profiling. Criminals are criminals. Our people have had a problem with drawing the line between peaceful Fulani people who are traditionally herdsmen and bandits, who are cattle rustlers.

“The media houses are not particularly helping us. It beats me why somebody will be in such a hurry to spread fake news. We don’t have any country apart from Nigeria. There must be stiff penalty for people propagating fake news because fake news is threatening the unity of this nation.

Abiodun disclosed that the state is now enjoying relative peace, as he commended the northern governors who were in Ogun State for a peace talk.

It would be recalled that about 12 persons were said to have been killed by suspected herdsmen in Yewa axis of the state over the last one week.

Racoon:
Just imagine the mumu.He did not even chronicled the atrocities of this murderous entity as the Alaafin of Oyo did in his letter to the president reminding him what will happen if the menace of his kiths and kin remained unchecked.Nawa for some slaves.

Bala Mohammed, the Governor of Bauchi State has said that bandits terrorising the North are not only from the Fulani ethnic group.

According to him, there are the Igbo, the Yoruba and the Hausa who are the real beneficiaries of the illicit trade.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Friday, the Governor said, “These bandits are not only Fulanis.

“In fact, they are terrorising the Fulanis but they have Fulani miscreants within them; they have Hausa, they have Igbo suppliers; they have Yorubas. They’re people really benefitting from the illicit trade.”

Speaking further, Mohammed said he has not changed his mind on his recent comment that herders have no option but to carry AK-47 for self-defence because they are being attacked and killed by cattle rustlers.

“I have not changed my opinion on the issue; I was not defending herdsmen,” he said.

The Governor also said that “It seems the security agencies have thrown in the towel; are mesmerized,” on the security situation in the country.

UncommonLogic:
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If Tinubu and other leaders should start barking like that Namdiot Cownu and that thug Sunday Igboho, all of you online keyboard warriors will be running in the bush to Ghana and other countries by now. Most of you keyboard warriors have no clue what war is all about.
Keep flaming the ember of war, just be ready to be at the war front once it starts.

bash8936:
I don’t understand ur tears under Tinubu comment. Leave Tinubu for Yoruba people to judge him he’s non of ur concern.
Channel ur energy to the broad daylight massacre of ur people in Orlu and Orsu.
No Igbo leaders yet to comment, while the gullible Igbo masses are busy keeping watch on Tinubu news over all social media. Leaving their village family to be turned to Suya.

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has called for peace among all ethnic, tribal and religious groups in Nigeria.

Tinubu made the call on Friday, during the Eighth-Day Fidau Prayer for the late Alhaji Lateef Jakande, the first Civilian Governor of Lagos State.

He said that the country was facing a crisis but all needed to live in harmony and give peace a chance.

”Nigeria is currently facing a crisis; a crisis of insurgency, banditry in all aspects of security, but God Almighty that made this country as one of the largest and most resourceful countries will protect us.

”I appeal, in his memory today, for us not to turn whatever challenges we are facing right now into ethnic, tribal and religious crises.

”If there is a crisis, where do we go? We will submerge entire West Africa, there will be no enough space to accommodate us.

”Those who have seen the effect of war, the effect of tribal conflict, of religious conflict, will never want it for Nigeria.

“We pray to God to strengthen our mind, guide our faith, put peace and bring peace unto this land, may Allah bless all of us,” Tinubu said.

He said that the clerics were very critical in the present situation, urging them for their prayers, commitment, fasting, all the sermons geared toward peace and stability in the country.

According to him, the death of the first civilian governor, Jakande is not just a loss to the family, but Lagos in general.

Tinubu said that Lagos and Nigeria at large were lucky to have a man like Alhaji Lateef Jakande, drawing from his wealth of knowledge.

”Today, he is no more but he is still existing to the eternity, we pray for Lagos State, we pray for Nigeria to give us more people, more leaders that are prudent, honest, that give priority to the world in the future,” he said.